Caught in the ACT: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

by Joseph Litvak

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520074548

ISBN13:9780520074545

Release Date:January 1992

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences

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