Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Cultures of Quotation from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen by Kate RumboldShakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Cultures of Quotation from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen by Kate Rumbold Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii+246pp. US$114.95. ISBN 978-1-107-13240-5.

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 692-694
Author(s):  
Megan Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Samuel Richardson ◽  
Cambridge University

Fiction

Unfelt ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 68-112
Author(s):  
James Noggle
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Samuel Richardson ◽  
Henry Fielding ◽  
Frances Burney ◽  
Marriage Plot

This chapter explains that unfelt affects are among the most subtly potent ones in eighteenth-century fiction, and they often decisively delineate character, advance plot, and confer a distinctive texture on narrative. The capacity of characters not to feel and not to notice feelings vitally supports the expressions of high emotion and intense desire long seen as among the novel's reasons for existence. In their privative sense, words like insensible and imperceptible sometimes serve as a plot device. Yet novelists also gesture to the insensible to evoke deeply meaningful affect, not merely as an alternative to the high-flown feelings evident in such fiction but also as a way of quietly enhancing their profundity. Moreover, these gestures help novelists navigate the perilous tensions and congruities between virtue and desire that are definitive of heroines' predicament in the marriage plot. The chapter then studies the insensible in the works of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen.

Jane Austen and the Theatre. By Penny Gay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; pp. xi + 201. £37.50 cloth.

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-142
Author(s):  
Jim Davis
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Women Playwrights ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Theatrical Representation ◽  
The Impact

Penny Gay's study moves between the influence of theatre and drama on Austen's novels and theatricality itself as a mode of representation. While theatrical performance is considered, Gay's analysis generally emphasizes the impact of dramatic literature rather than theatrical representation, genre rather than performance. Through reference to the work of eighteenth-century women playwrights, Gay also places Austen's work and contemporary theatre in pervasively “masculine” and “feminine” discourses.

Reviews: Historical Theory, a Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Malory's Morte D'Arthur: Re-Making Arthurian Tradition, Writing the Reformation: Actes and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play, Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court, 1590–1619, Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English since the Radical Sixties, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700, the Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland from the Fulbeck, Harvard and Westmorland Manuscripts, the Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England, Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England, Dorothy Osborne: Letters to William Temple: Observations on Love, Literature, Politics and Religion, Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage, Jane Austen and the Theatre, Jane Austen and the Theatre, Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination, George Eliot and the British Empire, Fiction Rivals Science: The French Novel from Balzac to Proust, the Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain: Essays in Honour of Jack Simmons, Middle-Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain, James Hanley: Modernism and the Working Class, Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at Home, Teaching LiteratureFulbrookMary, Historical Theory , Routledge, 2002, pp. xii + 228, £10.99.PulsianoPhillip and TraherneElaine (eds), A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature , Blackwell, 2001, pp. 529, £80.BattCatherine, Malory's Morte D'Arthur: Re-making Arthurian Tradition , Palgrave, 2002, pp. xxiii + 264, £32.50.RobinsonMarsha S., Writing the Reformation : Actes and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play , Ashgate, 2002, pp. xxiii + 192, £40.McManusClare, Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court, 1590–1619 , Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. 276, £45.BrantlingerPatrick, Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties , Routledge, 2001, pp. 238, £14.99 pb.FoxAdam, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700 , Oxford Studies in Social History, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2000, pp. 413, £45.00.CainTom (ed.), The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland from the Fulbeck, Harvard and Westmorland Manuscripts , Manchester University Press, 2001, pp. xii + 465, £50.LakePeter (with Michael Questier), The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England , Yale UP, 2002, pp. 731, $45.00.WallWendy, Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xiii + 292, £45KordaNatasha, Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, pp. ix + 276, $49.95.ParkerKenneth (ed.), Dorothy Osborne: Letters to William Temple: Observations on Love, Literature, Politics and Religion , Ashgate, 2002, pp. xi + 348£49.50.WeinbrotHoward D., SchakelPeter J. and KarianStephen E. (eds), Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth , University of Wisconsin Press, 2001, pp. xviii + 305, $21.95.TadmorNaomi, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage , Cambridge University Press2001, pp. x + 312, £40.ByrnePaula, Jane Austen and the Theatre , Hambledon, 2002, pp. xvii + 283, £25GayPenny, Jane Austen and the Theatre , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xi + 201, £37.50.ShawPhilip, Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination , Palgrave, 2002, pp. xiv + 260, £45.HenryNancy, George Eliot and the British Empire , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xi + 182, £35.ThiherAlan, Fiction Rivals Science: The French Novel from Balzac to Proust , University of Missouri Press, 2001, pp. ix + 226, £31.50.EvansA. K. B. and GoughJ. V. (eds), The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain: Essays in Honour of Jack Simmons , Ashgate, 2003, pp. 340, 25 illustrations and 6 maps, £20.YoungLinda, Middle-Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain , Palgrave, 2003, pp. xi + 245, £45.FordhamJohn, James Hanley: Modernism and the Working Class , University of Wales Press, 2002, pp. xii + 315, £25.ForsterThomas, Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at Home , Palgrave, 2002, pp. 224, £42.50.ShowalterElaine, Teaching Literature , Blackwell, 2002, pp. xi + 166, £45, £12.99 pb.

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-103
Author(s):  
Christopher Parker ◽  
Barbara Yorke ◽  
Elizabeth Truax ◽  
John N. King ◽  
Roberta Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Reformation England ◽  
English Identity ◽  
History Play ◽  
The Impact
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