| Caught in the ACT: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel Contributor(s): Litvak, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520074548 ISBN-13: 9780520074545 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1992 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| LCCN: 91010222 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.99" W x 8.94" (0.91 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Bront , 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. |