Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

by Ann Gaylin

Book Overview

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin argues that eavesdropping dramatizes a primal human urge to know and offers a paradigm of narrative transmission and reception of information among characters, narrators and readers. Gaylin sheds light on the social and psychological effects of the nineteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521815851
• ISBN13: 9780521815857
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"