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

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

Litvak, Joseph

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0520074548
ISBN13: 9780520074545
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jan 15 1992
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
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.

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