目錄
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Toward a Feminist Poetics of Narrative Voice
The Rise of the Novel, the Fall of the Voice: Juliette
Catesby's Silencing
Part I. Authorial Voice
3 In a Class by Herself: Self-Silencing in Riccoboni's
Abeille
4 Sense and Reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections"
5 Woman of Maxims: George Eliot and the Realist
Imperative
6 Fictions of Absence: Feminism, Modernism,
Virginia Woolf
7 Unspeakable Voice: Toni Morrison's Postmodern
Authority
Part II. Personal Voice
8 Dying for Publicity: Mistriss Henley's Self-Silencing
9 Romantic Voice: The Hero's Text
10 Jane Eyre's Legacy: The Powers and Dangers of
Singularity
11 African-American Personal Voice: "Her Hungriest
Lack"
Part III. Communal Voice
12 Solidarity and Silence: MiUenium Hall and The Wrongs
of Woman
13 Single Resistances: The Communal "I" in Gaskell,
Jewett, and Audoux
14 (Dif)fusions: Modern Fiction and Communal Form
15 Full Circle: Les Gugrilleres
Index