Caught in the act: theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index 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 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 values of privacy, domesticity, subjectivity, and sincerity. But Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Henry James is in fact a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. These novels also display extravagant theatrical forms like travesty, transvestism, charade, and carnival. The theatricality enforces social norms at the same time that it provides ways for novelists to resist them. Litvak thus challenges recent interpretations of the nineteenth-century novel as a disciplinary apparatus. His approach encourages a rethinking of the genre and its varied cultural contexts in all their instability and ambivalence. In addition to a new interpretation, this rethinking offers a new, more frankly theatrical approach to interpretation itself. Litvak argues that the theatricality of the nineteenth-century novel anticipates the late twentieth-century strategies of feminist and gay critical performance |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 283 pages) |
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| spelling | Litvak, Joseph Verfasser aut Caught in the act theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel Joseph Litvak Berkeley University of California Press 1992 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 283 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index 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 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 values of privacy, domesticity, subjectivity, and sincerity. But Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Henry James is in fact a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. These novels also display extravagant theatrical forms like travesty, transvestism, charade, and carnival. The theatricality enforces social norms at the same time that it provides ways for novelists to resist them. Litvak thus challenges recent interpretations of the nineteenth-century novel as a disciplinary apparatus. His approach encourages a rethinking of the genre and its varied cultural contexts in all their instability and ambivalence. In addition to a new interpretation, this rethinking offers a new, more frankly theatrical approach to interpretation itself. Litvak argues that the theatricality of the nineteenth-century novel anticipates the late twentieth-century strategies of feminist and gay critical performance 1800 - 1899 fast Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1800-1900 gnd rswk-swf LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh bisacsh Acting in literature fast Actors in literature fast English fiction fast Performing arts in literature fast Theater in literature fast English fiction 19th century History and criticism Performing arts in literature Theater in literature Actors in literature Acting in literature Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd rswk-swf Schauspieler Motiv (DE-588)4179440-0 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Theater Motiv (DE-588)4117199-8 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 s Schauspieler Motiv (DE-588)4179440-0 s Geschichte 1800-1900 z 1\p DE-604 Theater Motiv (DE-588)4117199-8 s 2\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 0-520-07452-1 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 0-520-07454-8 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 978-0-520-07452-1 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 978-0-520-07454-5 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=32762 Aggregator Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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