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UNINA9910495958403321 |
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Litvak Joseph |
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Titolo |
Caught in the act : theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel / / Joseph Litvak |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1992] |
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©1992 |
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ISBN |
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9780520911376 |
0520911377 |
9780585161235 |
0585161232 |
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Edizione |
[Reprint 2019] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Performing arts in literature |
Theater in literature |
Actors in literature |
Acting in literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
English Literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Infection of acting : theatricals and theatricality in Mansfield Park -- Governess as actress : the inscription of theatricality in Jane Eyre -- Scenes of writing, scenes of instruction : authority and subversion in Villette -- Dickens and sensationalism -- Poetry and theatricality in Daniel Deronda -- Making a scene : Henry James's theater of embarrassment -- Actress, monster, novelist : figuration and counterplot in The Tragic muse. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. He suggests that the theatricality which pervades these novels enforces |
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