Caught in the Act

Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte BrontË, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. He suggests that the theatricality which pervades these novels enforces social norms while introducing opportunities for novelists to resist them. This approach encourages a rethinking of the genre and its cultural contexts in all their instability and ambivalence.Litvak, Joseph is the author of 'Caught in the Act', published 1992 under ISBN 9780520074521 and ISBN 0520074521.