Performing intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot : a microsocial approach / Maya Higashi Wakana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakana, Maya Higashi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations in literature.

Friendship in literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 227 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday intimacies through a microsociological lens to demonstrate the value of reading microsocially. The text investigates the interplay between author, character, and reader and considers such concepts as face and moments of embarrassment to emphasize how art and life are inseparable. Drawing on narrative theory, the phenomenological approach, and macro approaches, Maya Higashi Wakana examines Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil," Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Wharton's Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence, and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book provides new ways of reading the everyday in literature.

Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot' analyzes literary reproductions of everyday intimacies through a microsociological lens to demonstrate the value of reading microsocially. The text investigates the interplay between author, character, and reader and considers such concepts as face and moments of embarrassment to emphasize how art and life are inseparable. Drawing on narrative theory, the phenomenological approach, and macro approaches, Maya Higashi Wakana examines Hawthorne?s 'The Minister?s Black Veil', Austen?s 'Pride and Prejudice', Wharton?s 'Ethan Frome' and 'The Age of Innocence', and George Eliot?s 'The Mill on the Floss'. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book provides new ways of reading the everyday in literature.

Contents:

Introduction: the reader and varieties of intimacies

"Fitting in" and Hawthorne's "The minister's black veil: a parable"

Host-guest relationships in Austen's Pride and prejudice

"Working" intimacies in Wharton's Ethan Frome

The gentleman in Wharton's The age of innocence

Unconditional love in George Eliot's The mill on the floss

Conclusion: art makes life, which makes art, which makes life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

3319939904

9783319939902

OCLC:

1037029160