Rewriting Romance: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

Taylor, Megan

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Lumen

2012

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Rewriting Romance: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

Megan Taylor

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Jane Austen and “Banal Shakespeare”

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2014

Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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author While critics have long acknowledged Jane Austen's literary debt to William Shakespeare, little attention has been paid to her infrequent use of direct quotations from his work. Perhaps because these instances of quotation are so rare, most critics who take note of them classify them as purely ironic: Austen quotes the Bard as a means by which to satirize the eighteenth-century vogue for Shakespeare epigrams, mocking other writers who ineptly or in apt ly cite wellworn passages in a transparent bid for artis tic legit i macy. While true to a certain extent, this conclusion does not do justice to Austen's ad mira tion of Shakespeare nor to the range of her sophisticated irony. Opening up such a critical stand point in this article, I closely examine instances of direct quota tions from Shakespeare in Austen' s novels and argue that Austen does not simply mock those writers who misuse Shake speare; her quotations also reinvigorate his most clichéd aphorisms and demonstrate both their continuing relevance and her own keen understanding of their complex original contexts.Megan Taylor is a SSHRC doctoral scholarship holder currently completing her PhD in English literature at

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