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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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In the Presence of Audience : The Self in Diaries and Fiction / by Martinson, Deborah, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : in the presence of audience : the self in diaries and fiction -- Virginia Woolf's diary : "whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?" …”
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Spoiling the Stories : The Rise of Israeli Women's Fiction / by Merin, Tamar, 1975-

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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

Table of Contents: “…All at one point conveys the point, period: or, black science fiction is bursting out all over -- Imaginative encounters / Hortense J. …”
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Career Stories : Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development / by Rogers, Juliette M., 1961-

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Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / by Reed, Ashley, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Writing Women's Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America -- "My Resolve is the Feminine of My Father's Oath" : Ritual Agency and Religious Language in the Early National Historical Novel -- "Unsheathe the Sword of a Strong, Unbending Will" : Sentimental Agency and the Doctrinal Work of Woman's Fiction -- "I Have Sinned against God and Myself" : Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women's Agency in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- "The Human Soul . . . …”
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Middlebrow Matters : Women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque / by Holmes, Diana, 1949-

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

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From Old Woman to Older Women : Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives / by Chivers, Sally, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Old age, literature, and potential -- Situating old women : fields of inquiry -- The mirror has two faces : Simone de Beauvoir's and Margaret Laurence's ambivalent representations -- Generation gaps and the potential of grandmotherhood -- Here, every minute is ninety seconds : fictional perspectives on nursing home care -- Living life seriatim : friendship and interdependence in late-life fiction and semifiction.…”
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Sin imágenes falsas, sin falsos espejos : narradoras mexicanas en el siglo XX /

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The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / by Hite, Molly, 1947-

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Greatness Engendered : George Eliot and Virginia Woolf / by Booth, Alison

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The New Woman and the Empire / by Jusová, Iveta, 1966-

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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

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Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History : Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature /

Table of Contents: “…Conflicting identities in the women of Ama Ata Aidoo's drama and fiction / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Coming to voice: navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock / DeLinda Marzette -- Migration, transformation, and identity formation in Buchi Emecheta's In the ditch and Kehinde / Romanus Muoneke -- Gloria Naylor's north/south dichotomy and the reversal of the middle passage : juxtaposed migrations within Mama Day / Kathryn M. …”
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