semi-satiric

Updated: May 9, 2025

But the decriers do not usually attempt formal criticism. However, they sometimes do, and such an attempt once came under the notice of the present historian. It was urged that to extol Miss Austen's method is a masculine delusion, that method being nothing but the throwing into literature of the habit of minute and semi-satiric observation natural to womankind.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)