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Jane Austen, The Prose Shakespeare, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner Jan 2013

Jane Austen, The Prose Shakespeare, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

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This essay explores the connection between Shakespearean drama and the novel’s representation of interiority. Jane Austen’s celebrated use of free indirect discourse, I argue, is linked to Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, which turned dramatic soliloquies into prose narration, rendering a character’s thought and idiom in a third-person voice. Heralded as a “prose Shakespeare” by nineteenth-century critics, Austen also developed an inverse free indirect discourse, the infusion of the narrative voice into characters’ dialogue. Scenes from Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion offer mini-Shakespearean plays of attention, for Shakespearean technique and quotation script Austen’s dramas of reading.


Employment Relations And The Failure Of Sympathy In Hardy’S Desperate Remedies And The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Lauren Hoffer Jan 2013

Employment Relations And The Failure Of Sympathy In Hardy’S Desperate Remedies And The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Lauren Hoffer

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“The Delight Of Our Earlier Days”: Character, Narrative, And The Village School, Patrick C. Fleming Jan 2013

“The Delight Of Our Earlier Days”: Character, Narrative, And The Village School, Patrick C. Fleming

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