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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 voiceincluding Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittigshe finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative.

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    Publisher: Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 1/15/2018 12:08:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9781501728013, 978-1501728013
    ISBN10: 1501728016

    Number of Pages: 304

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    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 voiceincluding Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittigshe finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative.

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