Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521815857
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers; History and criticism; English and French; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Austen, Jane; Balzac, Honore de; Collins, Wilkie; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Proust, Marcel; Views on eavesdropping; Eavesdropping in literature; 19th century; Austen, Jane,; English fiction; Literature, Comparative
First sentence: Almost everyone who has read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights or seen William Wyler's 1939 film version remembers the dramatic scene in which Catherine, unaware of Heathcliff's presence on the other side of the kitchen wall, confides her feelings for him to Nelly.