Date: Apr. 6th, 2020 06:59 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] greerwatson
Seeing your analysis makes me wonder whether the eighteenth-century novelists' use of contractions varies depending on context, i.e. dialogue vs. narrative. I can quite well imagine that they might feel a certain tension between the need for verisimilitude in the former and the propriety of formality in the latter. (Much as we today eschew contractions in academic writing.)

Makes me want to check out my own historical fic.
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