It made me chuckle given the German language’s predilection for multisyllabic words. My inspiration for this post is his comment on “the strong tendency of English towards monosyllables”.
He, keenly interested in architecture, was critical of Austen’s minimal descriptions of buildings in her novels, though he was impressed with her knowledge of and use of Bath in her novels – and of course much of Northanger Abbey is set in Bath.īut, I’m digressing. Pevsner wrote in 1968 an oft-quoted article on Austen, “The architectural setting of Jane Austen’s novels”. The reason I was reading this article, as you’ve probably guessed from the title, is because my local Jane Austen group is currently discussing Northanger Abbey. He regarded this as symptomatic of ‘understatement, the av ersion against fuss, the distrust of rhetoric’ (P evsner, The Englishness of English art, 1956, p. Pevsner noted the strong tendency of English towards monosyllables. In her article, “New guides to Bath: Society and scene in Northanger Abbey”, Judy Stove-Wilson wrote that I was reminded of George Orwell’s rules for writing this weekend while reading an article about the German architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983). George Orwell, 1933 (Presumed Public Domain, from Wikipedia)
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