Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust - Gaylin, Ann (Yale University, Connecticut)

This 2003 book investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin analyses eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust. This study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.