LEADER 03838nam 22006974a 450 001 9910811327003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-12600-2 010 $a1-280-15972-3 010 $a0-511-12076-1 010 $a0-511-04260-4 010 $a0-511-15791-6 010 $a0-511-32986-5 010 $a0-511-48480-1 010 $a0-511-04582-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000002339 035 $a(EBL)202296 035 $a(OCoLC)437063492 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511484803 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202296 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202296 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10063468 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15972 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000002339 100 $a20020322d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust /$fAnn Gaylin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, U.K. ;$aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v37 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-03890-1 311 $a0-521-81585-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index. 327 $aI'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. 330 $aEavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin argues that eavesdropping dramatizes a primal human urge to know and offers a paradigm of narrative transmission and reception of information among characters, narrators and readers. Gaylin sheds light on the social and psychological effects of the nineteenth-century rise of information technology and accelerated flow of information, as manifested in the anxieties about - and delight in - displays of private life and its secrets. Analysing eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust, Gaylin demonstrates the flexibility of the scene to produce narrative complication or resolution; to foreground questions of gender and narrative agency; to place the debates of privacy and publicity within the literal and metaphoric spaces of the nineteenth-century novel. This 2003 study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature. 410 0$aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v37. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEavesdropping in literature 606 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and French 606 $aComparative literature$xFrench and English 606 $aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEavesdropping in literature. 615 0$aComparative literature$xEnglish and French. 615 0$aComparative literature$xFrench and English. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.809353 700 $aGaylin$b Ann Elizabeth$01662403 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811327003321 996 $aEavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust$94019056 997 $aUNINA