UID:
edoccha_9958068132402883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages)
Edition:
Reprint 2019
ISBN:
0-520-91137-7
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0-585-16123-2
Content:
Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. He suggests that the theatricality which pervades these novels enforces social norms while introducing opportunities for novelists to resist them. This approach encourages a rethinking of the genre and its cultural contexts in all their instability and ambivalence.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Infection of acting : theatricals and theatricality in Mansfield Park -- Governess as actress : the inscription of theatricality in Jane Eyre -- Scenes of writing, scenes of instruction : authority and subversion in Villette -- Dickens and sensationalism -- Poetry and theatricality in Daniel Deronda -- Making a scene : Henry James's theater of embarrassment -- Actress, monster, novelist : figuration and counterplot in The Tragic muse.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-07454-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-07452-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520911376
