Jane Austen and Narrative Authority

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.

Author: T. Wallace
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/13/1995
Pages: 155
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780333607275

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