Empty houses: theatrical failure and the novel

Abstract

Introduction Interiority and Its Discontents 1 Theater Demetaphorized 1 Theater Dethematized: Spatializations of the Novel 10 Vocation of Failure 24 Chapter One: Acoustics in the Thackeray Theater 29 The Play 29 Trivializing History, or, Domesticity 33 Diminishing Returns: Vanity Fair's Theatricality 42 Box-Opener: A Note on Becky Sharp 50 Empty House Theatricals: Wolves and the Lamb 53 In the Recess of Consciousness: Lovel the Widower 56 Chapter Two: George Eliot's Lot 67 Theater and Abstraction 67 Romola, Felix Holt, and the Uses of Inwardness 74 Spanish Gypsy's Universal Theater 82 Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the Cast of Mind 91 Chapter Three: Henry James's Awkward Stage 105 Other Almost Anyhow 105 Performance Imaginary: Other House, 1896 113 Performance Imaginary II: Other House, 1909 121 In the Sociable Dusk of Awkward Age 126 James and His Kind 136 What Does Jamesian Style Want? 144 Chapter Four: Joyce Unperformed 153 Joycean Exposures 153 Epiphany and the Obscene Body 158 Ibsen, Exiles, and the Scene of Sex 167 Backstage at the Library: Scylla and Charybdis 178 Ineluctable Modality of the Legible: Circe 183 Epilogue In the Kingdom of Whomever: Baldwin's Method 192 Notes 207 Index 245

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