In Jane Austen and Narrative Authority Tara Ghoshal Wallace argues that Austen self-consciously examines the sources and limitations of narrative authority. Far from embodying ideological and technical complacency, Austen's novels articulate a range of anxieties about authorship and authority. Authorship liberates as well as constrains Austen's desire for feminine power, allowing her to create an assertive narrative voice which is then subjected to irony and criticism. Austen's work thematizes the complex relationship between narrative authority and readers' resistance.
In a searching but sympathetic series of textual analyses, Wallace argues that the canon of eighteenth-century English Literature was bron out of the interplay between literary nationalism and an imperial internationalism. Imperial Characters will add considerably to the globalization of the discipline that has been underway for some years now."---Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsvlvania --
In a searching but sympathetic series of textual analyses, Wallace argues that the canon of eighteenth-century English Literature was bron out of the interplay between literary nationalism and an imperial internationalism. Imperial Characters will add considerably to the globalization of the discipline that has been underway for some years now."---Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsvlvania --
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