THEATER FIGURES: PRODUCTION OF 19TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel - Softcover

ALLEN, EMILY

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ISBN 10: 0814251102 ISBN 13: 9780814251102

Verlag: Ohio State University Press, 2003

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"This book is beautifully written both at the level of the sentence and as an epitome of what literary criticism should do and be. Allen's ability to balance the necessity of heeding previous critics with the task of saying something new and interesting makes the writing in this manuscript among the best in the field of literary criticism."

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Why did nineteenth-century novels return, over again, to the scene of theater? Emily Allen argues that theater provided nineteenth-century novels, novelists, and critics with a generic figure that allowed them to position particular novels and novelistic genres within a complex literary field. Novel genres high and low, male and female, public and private, realistic and romantic, all came to identify themselves within a set of coordinates that included--if only for the purpose of exclusion--the spectacular figure of theater. This figure likewise provided a trope around and against which to construct images of readers and authors, images that most frequently worked to mediate between the supposedly private acts of reading and writing and the very public facts of the print market. In readings of novels by Burney, Austen, Scott, Dickens, Jewsbury, Flaubert, Braddon, and Moore, Allen shows how frequently theater appears as figure in novels of the nineteenth century, and how theater figures--actively and importantly--in what we have come to look back on as the history of the nineteenth-century novel. "Theater Figures thus offers a new model for thinking about how theater helped produce changes in the nineteenth-century literary market. While previous critics have considered theater as an enabling foil for the novel--either a constitutive opposite or constructive ally--Allen demonstrates how theater figures and tropes were used to negotiate competition among the novels and novelists eagerly seeking their share of the literary limelight.

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• Verlag: Ohio State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0814251102
• ISBN 13: 9780814251102
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264