Add to ORKGIn this dissertation, I close read four turn-of-the-century American novels by Henry James, Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnutt, and Willa Cather to analyze how the voices and silences of fictional women characters work to disrupt cultural ideals about womanhood. Examining which aspects of the characters’ identities are expressed in direct dialogue and which traits are conveyed to the reader through narrative devices reveals how cultural ideals about womanhood restrict women’s self-expressive autonomy and work to exclude female voices from the public sphere. Chapter One examines Henry James’s The Bostonians (1886) and how erotic rivals Olive Chancellor and Basil Ransom compete to control Verena Tarrant’s voice. Although a public speech artist...
This dissertation focuses on constructions of female authorship in selected prose narratives of four...
As I began to make decisions about what I wanted to write on, I started to consider the novels that ...
The impact of assigning gender to narrators, either by the author or reader, has recently become a p...
In this dissertation, I close read four turn-of-the-century American novels by Henry James, Kate ...
In this dissertation, I close read four turn-of-the-century American novels by Henry James, Kate ...
In this dissertation, I close read four turn-of-the-century American novels by Henry James, Kate ...
Focusing on late nineteenth-century American narrative fiction from 1892-1915, “The Gendered Subject...
This dissertation responds to and intends to subvert binary interpretations of silence, particularly...
This dissertation responds to and intends to subvert binary interpretations of silence, particularly...
This dissertation focuses on constructions of female authorship in selected prose narratives of four...
Turning Their Talk investigates the pressures placed upon female characters’ communication styles as...
This dissertation examines the ways the novelists on both sides of the Atlantic use the figure of th...
This dissertation examines the ways the novelists on both sides of the Atlantic use the figure of th...
In a dissertation submitted to the Department of Rhetoric and Oratory at the University of Wisconsin...
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define the silence as the...
This dissertation focuses on constructions of female authorship in selected prose narratives of four...
As I began to make decisions about what I wanted to write on, I started to consider the novels that ...
The impact of assigning gender to narrators, either by the author or reader, has recently become a p...
In this dissertation, I close read four turn-of-the-century American novels by Henry James, Kate ...
In this dissertation, I close read four turn-of-the-century American novels by Henry James, Kate ...
In this dissertation, I close read four turn-of-the-century American novels by Henry James, Kate ...
Focusing on late nineteenth-century American narrative fiction from 1892-1915, “The Gendered Subject...
This dissertation responds to and intends to subvert binary interpretations of silence, particularly...
This dissertation responds to and intends to subvert binary interpretations of silence, particularly...
This dissertation focuses on constructions of female authorship in selected prose narratives of four...
Turning Their Talk investigates the pressures placed upon female characters’ communication styles as...
This dissertation examines the ways the novelists on both sides of the Atlantic use the figure of th...
This dissertation examines the ways the novelists on both sides of the Atlantic use the figure of th...
In a dissertation submitted to the Department of Rhetoric and Oratory at the University of Wisconsin...
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define the silence as the...
This dissertation focuses on constructions of female authorship in selected prose narratives of four...
As I began to make decisions about what I wanted to write on, I started to consider the novels that ...
The impact of assigning gender to narrators, either by the author or reader, has recently become a p...