Caught in the Act (Paper)

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-07454-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Litvak, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Litvak is Associate Professor of English at Bowdin College.