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Author:

Gaylin, Ann Elizabeth.

Title:

Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust / Ann Gaylin.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xi, 241 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Views on eavesdropping.
Collins, Wilkie,--1824-1889--Views on eavesdropping.
Balzac, Honoré de,--1799-1850--Views on eavesdropping.
Proust, Marcel,--1871-1922--Views on eavesdropping.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Eavesdropping in literature.
Literature, Comparative--English and French.
Literature, Comparative--French and English.
French fiction--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index.

Contents:

I'm all ears: Pride and Prejudice, or the story behind the story -- Eavesdropping and the gentle art of Persuasion -- Household words: Balzac's and Dickens's domestic spaces -- The madwoman outside the attic: eavesdropping and narrative agency in The Woman in White -- La double entente: eavesdropping and identity in A la recherche du temps perdu -- Conclusion: covert listeners and secret agents.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 37

ISBN:

9780521815857 (hardback)
0521815851 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49564892
(OCoLC)51568075

LCCN:

2002025656

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)