Ann Gaylin

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

Herausgeber: Beer, Gillian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this 2003 book, Ann Gaylin investigates scenes of eavesdropping in nineteenth-century English and French novels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780521815857
• ISBN-10: 0521815851
• Artikelnr.: 35455783

Autorenporträt

Ann Gaylin is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She has published articles on Wilkie Collins and Proust. Her articles have appeared in Texas Studies in Literature and Language and The Cincinnati Romance Review.

Inhaltsangabe

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.