Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-0-521-81585-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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 study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. I'm all ears: Pride and Prejudice, or the story behind the story; 2. Eavesdropping and the gentle art of Persuasion; 3. Household words: Balzac's and Dickens's domestic spaces; 4. The madwoman outside the attic: eavesdropping and narrative agency in The Woman in White; 5. La double entente: eavesdropping and identity in A la recherche du temps perdu; Conclusion: covert listeners and secret agents; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
