UID:
edoccha_9958872874402883
Format:
1 online resource (287 pages)
ISBN:
1-5017-2801-6
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1-5017-2308-1
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. Toward a Feminist Poetics of Narrative Voice --
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2. The Rise of The Novel , The Fall of the Voice : Juliette Catesby's Silencing --
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Part I. Authorial Voice --
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3. In a Class by Herself: Self-Silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille --
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4. Sense and Reticence: Jane Austen's " Indirections" --
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5. Woman of Maxims: George Eliot and the Realist Imperative --
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6. Fictions of Absence : Feminism, Modernism, Virginia Woolf --
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7. Unspeakable Voice: Toni Morrison's Postmodern Authority --
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Part II. Personal Voice --
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8. Dying for Publicity: Mistriss Henley's Self-Silencing --
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9. Romantic Voice: The Hero's Text --
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10. Jane Eyre's Legacy: The Powers and Dangers of Singularity --
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11. African-American Personal Voice:" Her Hungriest Lack" --
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Part III. Communal Voice --
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12. Solidarity and Silence : Millenium Hall and the Wrongs of Woman --
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13. Single Resistances: The Communal " I " in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux --
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14. (Dif)Fusions: Modern Fiction And Communal Form --
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15. Full Circle: Les Guérillères --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8014-2377-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-2309-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501728013
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7591/9781501723087
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