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Caught in the Act : Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel / Joseph Litvak.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Litvak, Joseph, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Actors in literature.
- Acting in literature.
- Performing arts in literature.
- Theater in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520911376
- 0520911377
- 9780585161235
- 0585161232
- OCLC:
- 1163877823
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