Caught in the ACT: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel by Joseph Litvak
Caught in the ACT: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

Joseph Litvak

Caught in the ACT: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

Joseph Litvak

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nonfiction classics gender history literary medium-paced
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Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. He suggests that the theatricality which perv...

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