Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot
Subtitle: A Microsocial Approach
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 10, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783319939902
Description: Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday intimacies through a microsociological lens to demonstrate the value of reading microsocially. The text investigates the interplay between author, character, and reader and considers such concepts as face and moments of embarrassment to emphasize how art and life are inseparable. Drawing on narrative theory, the phenomenological approach, and macro approaches, Maya Higashi Wakana examines Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil," Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Wharton's Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence, and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book provides new ways of reading the everyday in literature.
Notes: Source title: Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot: A Microsocial Approach