Empty Houses : : Theatrical Failure and the Novel / / David Kurnick.

According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and exploring what has until now seemed a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 13 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One: Acoustics in the Thackeray Theater
  • Two: George Eliot's Lot
  • Three: Henry James's Awkward Stage
  • Four: Joyce Unperformed
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index