TY - BOOK ID - 22352523 TI - Caught in the act : theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel PY - 1992 SN - 0520074521 0520074548 0585161232 0520911377 9780520911376 9780585161235 9780520074521 9780520074545 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - Performing arts in literature KW - Theater in literature KW - Actors in literature KW - Acting in literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Acting in literature. KW - Actors in literature. KW - Performing arts in literature. KW - Theater in literature. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22352523 AB - 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. ER -