17625 Woolf Usually these books have worn

Usually these books have worn covers and jackets

heightened displays of private life in public

later Piozzi

One of 8 volumes of Austen's Minor Works

17625 Woolf Usually these books have wornShakespeare went through a transition in the 18th century from a playwright requiring improvement to a national poet whose every word was sacred. Scholars have studied this movement through adaptations, criticism and editing, but have overlooked the role of fiction. Rumbold shows us the prevalence and importance of fictional characters' direct quotations from Shakespeare. The novel as art form and Shakespeare as icon developed cultural authority