Book: Caught In The Act 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.
Details of Book: Caught In The Act Book: Caught In The Act
Author: Joseph Litvak
ISBN: 0520074548
ISBN-13: 9780520074545
, 978-0520074545
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jan 1992
Publisher: University Of California Press
Number of Pages: 304
Language: English