Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

Ann Elizabeth Gaylin

Original title: Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust

first published 2002 Cambridge University Press, 2002

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; — book 37

"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 psychologica...

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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust edition · 2002 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511042607
Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust edition · 2002 · Cambridge University Press · 241 pages

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