Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Toward a Feminist Poetics of Narrative Voice
2 The Rise of the Novel, the Fall of the Voice: Juliette Catesbys Silencing
Part I. Authorial Voice
3 In a Class by Herself: Self-Silencing in Riccobonis Abeille
4 Sense and Reticence: Jane Austens "Indirections"
5 Woman of Maxims: George Eliot and the Realist Imperative
6 Fictions of Absence: Feminism, Modernism, Virginia Woolf
7 Unspeakable Voice: Toni Morrisons Postmodern Authority
Part II. Personal Voice
8 Dying for Publicity: Mistriss Henleys Self-Silencing
9 Romantic Voice: The Heros Text
10 Jane Eyres Legacy: The Powers and Dangers of Singularity
11 African-American Personal Voice: "Her Hungriest Lack"
Part III. Communal Voice
12 Solidarity and Silence: Millenium Hall and The Wrongs of Woman
13 Single Resistances: The Communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux
14 Diffusions: Modern Fiction and Communal Form
15 Full Circle: Les Gurillres
Index