Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
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 dramatises 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 Aust…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-03890-4
- EAN: 9780521038904
- Produktnummer: 3029059
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 405 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 405
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