Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel Book

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.Read More

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  • 0520074548
  • 9780520074545
  • Litvak
  • 1 July 1992
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
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