Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Toward a Feminist Poetics of Narrative Voice
2 The Rise of the Novel, the Fall of the Voice: Juliette Catesby’s Silencing
Part I. Authorial Voice
3 In a Class by Herself: Self-Silencing in Riccoboni’s Abeille
4 Sense and Reticence: Jane Austen’s "Indirections"
5 Woman of Maxims: George Eliot and the Realist Imperative
6 Fictions of Absence: Feminism, Modernism, Virginia Woolf
7 Unspeakable Voice: Toni Morrison’s Postmodern Authority
Part II. Personal Voice
8 Dying for Publicity: Mistriss Henley’s Self-Silencing
9 Romantic Voice: The Hero’s Text