
Caught in the Act
Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Joseph Litvak(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. January 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-520-07454-5 (ISBN)
Description
Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Bronte, 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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-07454-5 (9780520074545)
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E-Book
09/2023
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€33.99
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Person
Joseph Litvak is Associate Professor of English at Bowdin College.