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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / Susan Sniader Lanser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944- author.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- French fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- French fiction.
- Authorship--Sex differences.
- Authorship.
- Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--France.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Susan Sniader Lanser is Professor Emerita of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction and The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic 1565-1830.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781501728013
- 1501728016
- 9781501723087
- 1501723081
- OCLC:
- 1028955825
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