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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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, Dickens, Collins, and Proust. This innovative study is for scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.
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Almost everyone who has read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights or seen William Wyler's 1939 film version remembers the dramatic scene in which Catherine, unaware of Heathcliff's presence on the other side of the kitchen wall, confides her feelings for him to Nelly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
illicit listening, eavesdropping figures, covert listening, eavesdropping scene, clandestine listening, secret listening, narrative agency, parents pauvres, narrative complication, general eds, des oreilles, sensation fiction, sensation novel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mlle Vinteuil, Anne Catherick, Mme Cibot, Mme Vauquer, Count Fosco, Sir Percival, Captain Harville, Elizabeth Bennet, Laura Fairlie, Madame Fosco, Marian Halcombe, Walter Hartright, Lord Orville, Maison Vauquer, Miss Bingley, Mlle Michonneau, Mme de Villeparisis, Anne Elliot, Captain Wentworth, Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen, Lady Russell, Miss Tox New!
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Almost everyone who has read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights or seen William Wyler's 1939 film version remembers the dramatic scene in which Catherine, unaware of Heathcliff's presence on the other side of the kitchen wall, confides her feelings for him to Nelly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
illicit listening, eavesdropping figures, covert listening, eavesdropping scene, clandestine listening, secret listening, narrative agency, parents pauvres, narrative complication, general eds, des oreilles, sensation fiction, sensation novel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mlle Vinteuil, Anne Catherick, Mme Cibot, Mme Vauquer, Count Fosco, Sir Percival, Captain Harville, Elizabeth Bennet, Laura Fairlie, Madame Fosco, Marian Halcombe, Walter Hartright, Lord Orville, Maison Vauquer, Miss Bingley, Mlle Michonneau, Mme de Villeparisis, Anne Elliot, Captain Wentworth, Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen, Lady Russell, Miss Tox New!
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- The Woman in White (Bantam Classics) by Wilkie Collins on 24 pages
- Dombey And Son on 21 pages
- Mansfield Park (Classic Library) by Jame Austen on 6 pages
- Jane Austen Northanger Abbey & Per (Casebook) by Southam on 6 pages
- Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) by Emily Brontė on 5 pages
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- Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Ivan Kreilkamp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Patrick R. O'Malley in Front Matter
- Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Janis McLarren Caldwell in Back Matter
- The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Christine Alexander in Back Matter
- Gender and the Victorian Periodical (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Hilary Fraser in Back Matter
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