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The Female Narrator in the British Novel

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  • © 2002

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  1. Lisa Sternlieb
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Designing a Narrative

    • Lisa Sternlieb
    Pages 1-16

  3. Jane Eyre: Hazarding Confidences

    • Lisa Sternlieb
    Pages 17-38

  4. Nelly Dean: Changing Tactics

    • Lisa Sternlieb
    Pages 39-51

  5. Marian Halcombe: Appropriating an Identity

    • Lisa Sternlieb
    Pages 52-74

  6. Esther Summerson: Looking Twice

    • Lisa Sternlieb
    Pages 75-105

  7. Molly Bloom: Acting Natural

    • Lisa Sternlieb
    Pages 106-131

  8. Conclusion: Refusing to Tell

    • Lisa Sternlieb
    Pages 132-159

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 160-177
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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.

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'This book is well researched...' - R.T. Van Arsdel, Choice

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LISA STERNLIEB is Professor of English at Wake Forest University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton University.

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