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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Aust...

Beer, Gillian.

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust.
Author:	Gaylin, Ann.
other author:	Beer, Gillian.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2003.
Description:	255 p.
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Subject:	Austen, Jane.; English fiction.; Literature, Comparative - English and French.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511484803 (electronic bk.)

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust.
Gaylin, Ann.

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2003. - 255 p. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 I m all ears: Pride and Prejudice, or the story behind the story; CHAPTER 2 Eavesdropping and the gentle art of Persuasion; CHAPTER 3 Household words: Balzac s and Dickens s domestic spaces; CHAPTER 4 The madwoman outside the attic: Eavesdropping and narrative agency in The Woman in White; CHAPTER 5 La double entente: eavesdropping and identity in A la recherche du temps perdu; Conclusion: covert listeners and secret agents; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

This book investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin analyses eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust. This innovative study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.

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ISBN: 9780511484803 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

322648
Austen, Jane.; English fiction.; Literature, Comparative - English and French.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR868.E25 G39 2002eb

Dewey Class. No.: 809.3

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