Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot A Microsocial Approach /

• Main Author: Wakana, Maya Higashi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Literary Theory.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Social Theory.

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 s...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Reader and Varieties of Intimacies
• Chapter 2 "Fitting In" and Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil: A Parable"
• Chapter 3 Host-Guest Relationships in Austen's Pride and Prejudice
• Chapter 4 "Working" Intimacies in Wharton's Ethan Frome
• Chapter 5 The Gentleman in Wharton's The Age of Innocence
• Chapter 6 Unconditional Love in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss
• Chapter 7 Conclusion: Art Makes Life, Which Makes Art, Which Makes Life.