03743nam 22006135 450 991027235190332120221128161815.01-5017-2801-61-5017-2308-110.7591/9781501723087(CKB)4340000000271056(MiAaPQ)EBC5317519(DE-B1597)496457(OCoLC)1028955825(DE-B1597)9781501723087(EXLCZ)99434000000027105620190615d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFictions of Authority Women Writers and Narrative Voice /Susan Sniader LanserIthaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2018]©19921 online resource (287 pages)Includes index.0-8014-2377-5 1-5017-2309-X 9781501728013 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 --IndexDrawing 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.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismFrench fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismAuthorshipSex differencesWomen and literatureEnglish-speaking countriesWomen and literatureFranceNarration (Rhetoric)English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.French fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.AuthorshipSex differences.Women and literatureWomen and literatureNarration (Rhetoric)823.009/9287Lanser Susan Sniader1944-330382DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910272351903321Fictions of Authority2799057UNINA