Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521815851
ISBN13:9780521815857
Release Date:February 2003
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:258 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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