Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
This study investigates human curiosity and its depiction in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann 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. She analyzes eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, and Proust. This innovative study is of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.
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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
This study investigates human curiosity and its depiction in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann 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. She analyzes eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, and Proust. This innovative study is of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.
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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

by Ann Gaylin
Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

by Ann Gaylin

Overview

This study investigates human curiosity and its depiction in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann 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. She analyzes eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, and Proust. This innovative study is of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521815857
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/16/2003
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture , #37
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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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