Female Narrator in the British Novel - Hidden Agendas

Zusatztext 'This book is well researched...' - R.T. Van Arsdel! Choice Informationen zum Autor LISA STERNLIEB is Professor of English at Wake Forest University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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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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'This book is well researched...' - R.T. Van Arsdel, Choice

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• Authors: L Sternlieb, L. Sternlieb, Lisa Sternlieb
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349429806
• ISBN: 978-1-349-42980-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection