PS to below -- I'd say LeGuin's style is immediately recognisable in SF circles, primarily because it's both Americanized and literary. Literary-educated people tend not to write SF in the US, or at least strongly deny it's sf (cf Margaret Atwood) or Marj Piercy (sp?)

I like Defoe, but then, he tells good stories. Moll Flanders, yes? I think you can only tell style in the cultural/genre context. Like Wemyss and Tiger Silver -- totally like some other writers' style at turn of the century, but fresh and therefore welcome in Harry Potter verse.Not just the language, but the values. I mean the 19th century, of course.