Jane Austen and Narrative Authority

Download or read book Jane Austen and Narrative Authority written by T. Wallace and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-03-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.