Jane Austen and Narrative Authority

Jane Austen and Narrative Authority
ISBN-10
0230372945
ISBN-13
9780230372948
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
155
Language
English
Published
1995-03-13
Publisher
Springer
Author
T. Wallace

Description

In Jane Austen and Narrative Authority, Tara Ghoshal Wallace argues that far from embodying ideological and technical serenity, Austen's novels articulate a range of anxieties about authorship and authority. The novels experiment in different ways with possible sources and the ultimate failures of authority, always returning to the compromised figure of the narrator. Wallace suggests that Austen's novelistic output can be read as a theory of interpretation, thematizing problems of narrative authority and readers' resistance.

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