Fictions of Authority by Susan Sniader Lanser

Fictions of Authority by Susan Sniader Lanser

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.

Fictions of Authority is an important book, marking the coming of age of feminist studies of women and the novelIts critical attention is fixed on the narrative form, as opposed to the representational content, of women’s novels. It takes an ambitious scope of three centuries to construct a history of the modern novel that problematizes the correspondences between women’s literary and social authority.

-- Syvia Bowerbank * Studies in the Novel *

Susan Sniader Lanser is Professor Emerita of English, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction and The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic 1565–1830.

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Titel	Fictions of Authority
Autor	Susan Sniader Lanser
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2018-08-15
Seitenanzahl	304
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