Caught in the Act
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19th century english literature
19th century english novel
A01=Joseph Litvak
ambivalence
Author_Joseph Litvak
british literary studies
canonical literature
carnival
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Category=DSK
charade
charlotte bronte
class identity
cultural context
disciplinary apparatus
domesticity
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
feminist performance
gay critical performance
gender
gender studies
george eliot
henry james
instability
jane austen
literary criticism
normative gender
politics
privacy
public script
sincerity
social norms
subjectivity
theatrical themes
theatricality
transvestism
travesty
Product details
- ISBN 9780520074545
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 1992
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Joseph Litvak is Associate Professor of English at Bowdin College.
