Fictions Of Authority: Women Writers And Narrative Voice

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 , 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.

• | Author: Susan Sniader Lanser
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501728016
• | ISBN-13: 9781501728013