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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin argues that eavesdropping dramatizes a primal human urge to know and offers a paradigm of narrative transmission and reception of information among characters, narrators and readers. Gaylin sheds light on the social and psychological effects of the nineteenth-century rise of information technology and accelerated flow of information, as manifested in the anxieties about - and delight in - displays of private life and its secrets. Analysing eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust, Gaylin demonstrates the flexibility of the scene to produce narrative complication or resolution; to foreground questions of gender and narrative agency; to place the debates of privacy and publicity within the literal and metaphoric spaces of the nineteenth-century novel. This 2003 study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.

English fiction --- Eavesdropping in literature. --- Comparative literature --- French fiction --- History and criticism. --- English and French. --- French and English. --- Austen, Jane, --- Collins, Wilkie, --- Balzac, Honoré de, --- Proust, Marcel, --- de Balzac, Honoré --- de Balzac, H. --- Balzac, Honoré de --- Collins, William Wilkie, --- Collins, William Wilkie --- Kollinz, Uilki, --- Collins, W., --- Collins, W. Wilkie, --- Коллинз, Уилки, --- קולינס, וילקי, --- 柯林斯威尔基, --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Views on eavesdropping. --- Prust, Marselʹ, --- Proust, Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel, --- Pʻŭrusŭtʻŭ, Marŭsel, --- Pʻu-lu-ssu-tʻe, --- Пруст, Марсель, --- פרוסט, מארסל --- פרוסט, מרסל --- ,פרוסט, מרסל --- بروست، مارسيل،, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ba'erzhake, --- Balzac, H. de --- Balzac, Honorato, --- Balzak, --- Balʹzak, Onore, --- Balzaḳ, Onoreh deh, --- Balzāk, Ūnūrīh dī, --- Banzăc, Hônôrê đơ, --- Baruzakku, --- de Balzac, Honorato, --- Jeune célibataire, --- Pa-erh-cha-kʻo, --- Бальзак, Оноре де, --- באלזאק, אנארע דע, --- באלזאק, אונורה דה, --- באלזאק, האָנאָרע דע, --- בלזק, אונורה דה, --- בלזק, הונורה דה-, --- דע־באלזאק, האָנאָרע, --- بالزاك، انوره دو --- バルザック, --- 巴爾札克, --- 巴爾扎克, --- R'Hoone, --- Saint-Aubin, Horace de, --- Cloteaux, Aurore --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Proust, Marcel