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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

Gaylin, Ann
Beer, Gillian

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 37

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521815851
ISBN13: 9780521815857
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 16 2003
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This study investigates human curiosity and its depiction in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin sheds light on the social and psychological effects of the nineteenth-century rise of information technology and accelerated flow of information, as manifested in the anxieties about (and delight in) displays of private life and its secrets. She analyzes eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, and Proust. This innovative study is of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.

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