Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot
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
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performing intimacies with hawthorne, austen, wharton, and george eliot a microsocial approach
Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot
Maya Higashi Wakana
Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot A Microsocial Approach
Maya Higashi Wakana Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan
ISBN 978-3-319-93990-2 ISBN 978-3-319-93991-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93991-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018947311 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Art Collection 3/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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Foreword
As nineteenth-century novelists love to remind us, it is the business of the novel to show us ordinary people in their everyday lives. “Something real, cool, and solid lies before you,” Charlotte Bronte announces at the beginning of Shirley. Put aside your craving for melodrama or spectacle or high adventure, she counsels, for here you will instead find men and women just like you and me engaged in the mostly unremarkable activities that make up our common lives together. But everyday life is far from simple, and even our most unremarkable day-to-day activities are bursting with complexity and nuance. How human beings navigate the often perilous waters of social intercourse is one of the subjects of Maya Higashi Wakana’s splendid book. Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman, Higashi Wakana provides us with a perspective and a vocabulary that allow for a richer sense of the myriad microsocial
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