| Author/Contributor(s): | Lanser, Susan Sniader |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Date: | 08/15/2018 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.