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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice
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Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the...
Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"--Including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittig--she finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative
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- Susan Sniader Lanser
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- Project MUSE Open Access ebooks
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- Books
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- English
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- London : Cornell University Press, [1992]
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- ©[1992]
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- 1 online resource (304 pages)
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- 9781501723094, 9781501723087, 9780801423772, 9781501728013
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- on1057688719
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- Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres
Subjects
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature.
- French fiction -- History and criticism.
- American fiction -- History and criticism.
- English fiction -- History and criticism.
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Women and literature -- France.
- Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
- Authorship -- Sex differences.
- French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.