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Autore: |
Gaylin Ann Elizabeth
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Titolo: |
Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust / / Ann Gaylin [[electronic resource]]
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 823/.809353 |
Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Eavesdropping in literature | |
Comparative literature - English and French | |
Comparative literature - French and English | |
French fiction - History and criticism | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-107-12600-2 |
1-280-15972-3 | |
0-511-12076-1 | |
0-511-04260-4 | |
0-511-15791-6 | |
0-511-32986-5 | |
0-511-48480-1 | |
0-511-04582-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777326303321 |
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