Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
"Alison A. Case identifies a convention of "feminine narration" characterized by the exclusion of the female narrator from shaping her experience into a coherent, meaningful, and authoritative story. Instead, male narrator steps in to shape the narrative either within the text or in a pseudoeditorial frame.
Case treats Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa as foundational texts in the establishment of this literary convention and then traces its evolution through detailed readings of novels by Smollett, Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Barrett Browning, Dickens, Collins, and Stoker. In giving feminine narration the status of a convention, Case suggests that deviations from it create a deliberate effect. She focuses primarily on texts in which the convention is challenged, reasserted, or reshaped and in which female narrative authority, or lack thereof, plays a central thematic as well as formal role.
These struggles over narrative control often represent larger concerns about female power and agency."--BOOK JACKET. "In addition to offering a rich and nuanced account of the contestation over women's narrative authority in and among novels of this period, Plotting Women makes a substantial contribution to feminist criticism and the study of the novel more generally by establishing a model of gendered narration that is not directly tied to the gender of authors."--BOOK JACKET.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
English fiction, First person narrative, History, History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Sex role in literature, Stories, plots, Women in literature, Narration, Femmes, Femmes dans la litterature, Role selon le sexe, Dans la litterature, Histoires, intrigues, Literature, Histoire et critique, Roman anglais, Recits a la premiere personne, Role selon le sexe dans la litterature, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Fiction, stories, plots, etc.Times
18th century, 19th centuryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Plotting Women
December 1, 2005, University Press of Virginia
Paperback
in English
0813925843 9780813925844
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Plotting Women: Gender & Narration in the Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century British Novel
1999, University Press of Virginia
in English
0813918952 9780813918952
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
Plotting women: gender and narration in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel
1999, University Press of Virginia
in English
0813918952 9780813918952
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215) and index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 1, 2008
- 4 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
April 14, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
April 1, 2010 | Edited by bgimpertBot | Added goodreads ID. |
December 8, 2009 | Edited by ImportBot | link works |
April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Scriblio MARC record |