TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lanser,Susan Sniader
TI  - Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice 
SN  - 9781501723087
AV  - PR830.W6 .L367 1992eb
U1  - 823.009/9287 20
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - English fiction
KW  - French fiction
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - France
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Toward a Feminist Poetics of Narrative Voice --; 2. The Rise of The Novel , The Fall of the Voice : Juliette Catesby's Silencing --; Part I. Authorial Voice --; 3. In a Class by Herself: Self-Silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille --; 4. Sense and Reticence: Jane Austen's " Indirections" --; 5. Woman of Maxims: George Eliot and the Realist Imperative --; 6. Fictions of Absence : Feminism, Modernism, Virginia Woolf --; 7. Unspeakable Voice: Toni Morrison's Postmodern Authority --; Part II. Personal Voice --; 8. Dying for Publicity: Mistriss Henley's Self-Silencing --; 9. Romantic Voice: The Hero's Text --; 10. Jane Eyre's Legacy: The Powers and Dangers of Singularity --; 11. African-American Personal Voice:" Her Hungriest Lack" --; Part III. Communal Voice --; 12. Solidarity and Silence : Millenium Hall and the Wrongs of Woman --; 13. Single Resistances: The Communal " I " in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux --; 14. (Dif)Fusions: Modern Fiction And Communal Form --; 15. Full Circle: Les Guérillères --; Index; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723087
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