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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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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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Liberating literature feminist fiction in America / by Lauret, Maria

Subjects: “…American fiction Women authors History and criticism.…”
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New visions of community in contemporary American fiction Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison / by Michael, Magali Cornier

Subjects: “…American fiction 20th century History and criticism.…”
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Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction by Sellers, Susan

Subjects: “…English fiction 20th century History and criticism.…”
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Opening acts : narrative beginnings in twentieth-century feminist fiction / by Romagnolo, Catherine

Subjects: “…American fiction Women authors History and criticism.…”
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Romancing God evangelical women and inspirational fiction / by Neal, Lynn S.

Table of Contents: “…The history of evangelical romance -- The discipline of fun -- The evaluation of romance -- The ministry of romantic fiction -- The fashioning of faith -- The romance of God.…”
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Women in chains the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction / by Patton, Venetria K., 1968-

Subjects: “…American fiction African American authors History and criticism.…”
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Risking difference identification, race, and community in contemporary fiction and feminism / by Wyatt, Jean

Subjects: “…American fiction Women authors History and criticism.…”
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Activism and the American novel religion and resistance in fiction by women of color / by Romero, Channette

Subjects: “…American fiction Women authors History and criticism.…”
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Women, money, and the law nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts / by Warren, Joyce W.

Subjects: “…American fiction 19th century History and criticism.…”
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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.…”
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The coupling convention sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction / by DuCille, Ann

Subjects: “…American fiction African American authors History and criticism.…”
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Spinster tales and womanly possibilities by Rosenthal, Naomi Braun, 1940-

Subjects: “…American fiction History and criticism.…”
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Partial visions : feminism and utopianism in the 1970s / by Bammer, Angelika

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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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Crossing borders through folklore African American women's fiction and art / by Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean, 1946-

Subjects: “…American fiction African American authors History and criticism.…”
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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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Beyond the Gibson Girl reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915 / by Patterson, Martha H., 1966-

Subjects: “…American fiction Women authors History and criticism.…”
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Dirt and desire reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 / by Yaeger, Patricia

Subjects: “…American fiction Southern States History and criticism.…”
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