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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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 304
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
15 January 1992
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9780520074545
Format: Paperback
Joseph Litvak is Associate Professor of English at Bowdin College.