苏珊·S.兰瑟著的《虚构的权威：女性作家与叙述声音(英文版)》是一部以女性主义和叙事学交叉的视野和方法建构“女性主义叙事学”理论的学术力作。作者对简·奥斯丁、乔治·艾略特、托妮·莫里森等欧美主要女性作家的叙事文本进行深度解读，在结构主义的经典叙事学形式分析方法中注入了女性主义文学批评有关政治的、性别的、社会历史的和意识形态的内容，具有理论的开创性意义。

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Toward a Feminist Poetics of Narrative Voice
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
10 Jane Eyre's Legacy: The Powers and Dangers of
Singularity
11 African-American Personal Voice: "Her Hungriest
Lack"
Part III. Communal Voice
12 Solidarity and Silence: MiUenium Hall and The Wrongs
of Woman
13 Single Resistances: The Communal "I" in Gaskell,
Jewett, and Audoux
14 (Dif)fusions: Modern Fiction and Communal Form
15 Full Circle: Les Gugrilleres
Index