Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust
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Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust
（Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 37）
Cambridge University Press, 2002
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"This digitally printed version 2007"--T.p. verso of pbk
Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index
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内容説明
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.
目次
- 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.
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