Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 I'm all ears: Pride and Prejudice, or the story behind the story
- 2 Eavesdropping and the gentle art of Persuasion
- 3 Household words: Balzac's and Dickens's domestic spaces
- 4 The madwoman outside the attic: eavesdropping and narrative agency in The Woman in White
- 5 La double entente: eavesdropping and identity in A la recherche du temps perdu
- Conclusion: covert listeners and secret agents
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 I'm all ears: Pride and Prejudice, or the story behind the story
- 2 Eavesdropping and the gentle art of Persuasion
- 3 Household words: Balzac's and Dickens's domestic spaces
- 4 The madwoman outside the attic: eavesdropping and narrative agency in The Woman in White
- 5 La double entente: eavesdropping and identity in A la recherche du temps perdu
- Conclusion: covert listeners and secret agents
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003