Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-236) and index
I'm all ears: Pride and Prejudice, or the story behind the story -- Eavesdropping and the gentle art of Persuasion -- Household words: Balzac's and Dickens's domestic spaces -- The madwoman outside the attic: eavesdropping and narrative agency in The Woman in White -- La double entente: eavesdropping and identity in A la recherche du temps perdu -- Conclusion: covert listeners and secret agents
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index
Realism and representation -- Balzac invents the nineteenth century -- Dickens and nonrepresentation -- Flaubert and the scandal of realism -- Courbet's house of realism -- George Eliot's delicate vessels -- Zola's combustion chamber -- Unreal city : Paris and London in Balzac, Zola, and Gissing -- Manet, Caillebotte, and modern life -- Henry James's turn of the novel -- Modernism and realism : Joyce, Proust, Woolf -- The future of reality?
