The Female Narrator in the British Novel: Hidden Agendas
The Female Narrator in the British Novel studies first-person narratives and demonstrates that how a woman tells her story is crucial to our understanding of its content, for a novel's mode of narration frequently undermines its ostensible plot. Analyzing relationships between the sexes in terms of battles for narrative authority, Sternlieb argues for a rethinking of the history of the marriage plot.
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The Female Narrator in the British Novel: Hidden Agendas
The Female Narrator in the British Novel studies first-person narratives and demonstrates that how a woman tells her story is crucial to our understanding of its content, for a novel's mode of narration frequently undermines its ostensible plot. Analyzing relationships between the sexes in terms of battles for narrative authority, Sternlieb argues for a rethinking of the history of the marriage plot.
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The Female Narrator in the British Novel: Hidden Agendas

The Female Narrator in the British Novel: Hidden Agendas

by L. Sternlieb
The Female Narrator in the British Novel: Hidden Agendas

The Female Narrator in the British Novel: Hidden Agendas

by L. Sternlieb

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The Female Narrator in the British Novel studies first-person narratives and demonstrates that how a woman tells her story is crucial to our understanding of its content, for a novel's mode of narration frequently undermines its ostensible plot. Analyzing relationships between the sexes in terms of battles for narrative authority, Sternlieb argues for a rethinking of the history of the marriage plot.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349429806
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2002
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Pages: 177
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

LISA STERNLIEB is Professor of English at Wake Forest University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Designing a Narrative Jane Eyre: Hazarding Confidences Nelly Dean: Changing Tactics Marian Halcombe: Appropriating an Identity Esther Summerson: Looking Twice Molly Bloom: Acting Natural Conclusion: Refusing to Tell Notes Index
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