Caught in the act : theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel /

In Caught in the Act, Joseph Litvak reveals not only the surprising wealth of theatrical themes in the canonical nineteenth-century English novel, but also the complex and over-determined politics of this theatricality. Nineteenth-century fiction is typically understood as enshrining the bourgeois v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Litvak, Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Performing arts in literature.
Theater in literature.
Actors in literature.
Acting in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Arts du spectacle dans la littérature.
Théâtre dans la littérature.
Acteurs dans la littérature.
Art dramatique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Infection of acting : theatricals and theatricality in Mansfield Park
  • Governess as actress : the inscription of theatricality in Jane Eyre
  • Scenes of writing, scenes of instruction : authority and subversion in Villette
  • Dickens and sensationalism
  • Poetry and theatricality in Daniel Deronda
  • Making a scene : Henry James's theater of embarrassment
  • Actress, monster, novelist : figuration and counterplot in The Tragic muse.

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