Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust Paperback / softback
by Ann (Yale University, Connecticut) Gaylin
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels.
Ann Gaylin argues that eavesdropping dramatizes a primal human urge to know and offers a paradigm of narrative transmission and reception of information among characters, narrators and readers.
Gaylin sheds light on the social and psychological effects of the nineteenth-century rise of information technology and accelerated flow of information, as manifested in the anxieties about - and delight in - displays of private life and its secrets.
Analysing eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust, Gaylin demonstrates the flexibility of the scene to produce narrative complication or resolution; to foreground questions of gender and narrative agency; to place the debates of privacy and publicity within the literal and metaphoric spaces of the nineteenth-century novel.
This 2003 study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, 1 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2007
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- ISBN:9780521038904
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, 1 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521038904
