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Focuses on canonical authors including Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and Eliot
Applies theories of sociology and psychology to literary studies
Contributes to understanding of identities as constructed/performed
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Maya Higashi Wakana
About the author
Maya Higashi Wakana is Professor Emeritus of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, and the author of Performing the Everyday in Henry James’s Late Novels (2009).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot
Book Subtitle: A Microsocial Approach
Authors: Maya Higashi Wakana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93991-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93990-2Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06766-3Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93991-9Published: 27 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 227
Topics: Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Social Theory