Caught in the act : theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel / / Joseph Litvak

• Autore: Litvak Joseph
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages)
• Disciplina: 823/.809357
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 social norms while introducing opportunities for novelists to resist them. This approach encourages a rethinking of the genre and its cultural contexts in all their instability and ambivalence.
• Titolo autorizzato: Caught in the act
• ISBN: 0-520-91137-7; 0-585-16123-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495958403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II