Ambiguous Discourse
Subtitle: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 9, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780807845998
Subjects: Feminism; Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; History and criticism; Gender Studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors; women; comparative literature;  gender; British literature; Feminist fiction, English; English fiction; Feminism and literature; Great Britain; History; Women authors
First sentence: Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818) is a novel constructed around what was, for its time, a radically unusual narrative premise: the love affair that should have culminated in a marriage to end a conventional romance has gone awry, and the heroine of the piece must begin again, eight and a half years later, on her quest for narrative closure.