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- catalog abstract ""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. Analyzing eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Collins, and Proust, she demonstrates the flexibility of the scene to produce narrative complication or resolution, to foreground questions of gender and narrative agency, and to place the debate of privacy and publicity within the literal and metaphoric spaces of the nineteenth-century novel. This innovative study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12748271.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""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. Analyzing eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Collins, and Proust, she demonstrates the flexibility of the scene to produce narrative complication or resolution, to foreground questions of gender and narrative agency, and to place the debate of privacy and publicity within the literal and metaphoric spaces of the nineteenth-century novel. This innovative study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 241 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521815851".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 37".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "823/.809353 21".
- catalog subject "Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Views on eavesdropping.".
- catalog subject "Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 Views on eavesdropping.".
- catalog subject "Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 Views on eavesdropping.".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature English and French.".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature French and English.".
- catalog subject "Eavesdropping in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "French fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative English and French.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative French and English.".
- catalog subject "PR868.E25 G39 2002".
- catalog subject "Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 Views on eavesdropping.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust / Ann Gaylin.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".