Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice.

Abstract

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.

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Rachel Mayer Brownstein, Susan Sniader Lanser (1993). Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice.. Eighteenth-Century Studies. https://doi.org/10.2307/2739295

@article{mayer1993fictions,
  title  = {Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice.},
  author = {Brownstein, Rachel Mayer and Lanser, Susan Sniader},
  year   = {1993},
  journal = {Eighteenth-Century Studies},
  doi    = {10.2307/2739295}
}

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