Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Cultures of Quotation from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen

Rumbold, Kate

Cambridge University Press

03/2016

254

Dura

Inglês

9781107132405

15 a 20 dias

This study shows that Shakespeare is a very significant presence in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, from epigraphs to descriptions of performances of his plays, and from allusions in polite conversation to Shakespearean knowledge as a mark of erudition among men and women alike.
1. Introduction; 2. Quotation culture; 3. Shakespeare's novel authority; 4. Theatrical Shakespeare; 5. Banal Shakespeare; 6. Ann Radcliffe's Gothic epigraphs; 7. Jane Austen and eighteenth-century Shakespeare; 8. Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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