03838nam 22006974a 450 991081132700332120200520144314.01-107-12600-21-280-15972-30-511-12076-10-511-04260-40-511-15791-60-511-32986-50-511-48480-10-511-04582-4(CKB)1000000000002339(EBL)202296(OCoLC)437063492(UkCbUP)CR9780511484803(MiAaPQ)EBC202296(Au-PeEL)EBL202296(CaPaEBR)ebr10063468(CaONFJC)MIL15972(EXLCZ)99100000000000233920020322d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust /Ann Gaylin1st ed.Cambridge, U.K. ;New York Cambridge University Press20021 online resource (xi, 241 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;37Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-03890-1 0-521-81585-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index.I'm all ears: Pride and Prejudice, or the story behind the story -- Eavesdropping and the gentle art of Persuasion -- Household words: Balzac's and Dickens's domestic spaces -- The madwoman outside the attic: eavesdropping and narrative agency in The Woman in White -- La double entente: eavesdropping and identity in A la recherche du temps perdu -- Conclusion: covert listeners and secret agents.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.Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;37.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEavesdropping in literatureComparative literatureEnglish and FrenchComparative literatureFrench and EnglishFrench fictionHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Eavesdropping in literature.Comparative literatureEnglish and French.Comparative literatureFrench and English.French fictionHistory and criticism.823/.809353Gaylin Ann Elizabeth1662403MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811327003321Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust4019056UNINA