Lanser, Susan Sniader2021-07-072021-07-0719929780801423772 (print)9781501723094 (epub)9781501723087 (PDF ebook)https://hdl.handle.net/1813/104006Drawing 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.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalLiterary & Cultural StudiesFeminist, Gender & Sexuality Studiesbookhttps://doi.org/10.7298/t960-ht64