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Overview
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.
Synopsis
Focusing on the female narrator in the 19th- and 20th-century British novel, Sternlieb (English, Wake Forest U.) examines the female narrators in a number of canonical texts: Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, Bleak House, Ulysses, and the more contemporary Possession. She challenges established ideas about unreliable narration and reductive readings of what is female, finding that these novels' mode of narration frequently undermines the ostensible plot. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Focusing on the female narrator in the 19th- and 20th-century British novel, Sternlieb (English, Wake Forest U.) examines the female narrators in a number of canonical texts: , , , , and the more contemporary . She challenges established ideas about unreliable narration and reductive readings of what is female, finding that these novels' mode of narration frequently undermines the ostensible plot. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)