Fictions of authority : women writers and narrative voice /
Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-
Fictions of authority : women writers and narrative voice / [electronic resource] Susan Sniader Lanser. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, (c)1992. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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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 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 Bront�e, 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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9781501723094 150172309X 9781501723087 1501723081
2019725866
Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezieres.
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
French fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Authorship--Sex differences.
Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
Women and literature--France.
Narration (Rhetoric)
English fiction--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.
French fiction--History and criticism.
Women and literature.
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR830.6
Fictions of authority : women writers and narrative voice / [electronic resource] Susan Sniader Lanser. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, (c)1992. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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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 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 Bront�e, 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
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781501723094 150172309X 9781501723087 1501723081
2019725866
Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezieres.
English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
French fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Authorship--Sex differences.
Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
Women and literature--France.
Narration (Rhetoric)
English fiction--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.
French fiction--History and criticism.
Women and literature.
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR830.6