Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

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Hardcover | 27 March 2003

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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 dramatises 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 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. Analysing eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust, Gaylin demonstrates the flexibility of the scene to produce narrative complication or resolution; to foreground questions of gender and narrative agency; to place the debates of privacy and publicity within the literal and metaphoric spaces of the nineteenth-century novel. This innovative study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.

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'... the cultural impact of eavesdropping on notions of space, identity and reading are well articulated and ultimately convincing. Gayling's scholarship provides yet another focus for the study of nineteenth century literature and culture and critics will find value in her novel approach to a phenomenon that resonates as much in the contemporary world as it did over a century ago.' English '... surprises by the abundance of its examples and frequently impresses by the cogency of its analysis ...' Modernism/Modernity

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
I'm all ears: Pride and Prejudice, or the story behind the story
Eavesdropping and the gentle art of Persuasion
Household words: Balzac's and Dickens's domestic spaces
The madwoman outside the attic: eavesdropping and narrative agency in The Woman in White
La double entente: eavesdropping and identity in A la recherche du temps perdu
Conclusion: covert listeners and secret agents
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
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