Voice and the Victorian storyteller

Ivan Kreilkamp

The nineteenth-century novel has always been regarded as a literary form pre-eminently occupied with the written word, but Ivan Kreilkamp shows it was deeply marked by and engaged with vocal performances and the preservation and representation of speech. He offers a detailed account of the many ways Victorian literature and culture represented the human voice, from political speeches, governesses' tales, shorthand manuals, and staged authorial performances in the early- and mid-century, to mechanically reproducible voice at the end of the century. Through readings of Charlotte Bronte, Browning, Carlyle, Conrad, Dickens, Disraeli and Gaskell, Kreilkamp re-evaluates critical assumptions about the cultural meanings of storytelling, and shows that the figure of the oral storyteller, rather than disappearing among readers' preference for printed texts, persisted as a character and a function within the novel. This 2005 study will change the way readers consider the Victorian novel and its many ways of telling stories.

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[目次]

  • 1. 'The best man of all': mythologies of the storyteller
  • 2. When good speech acts go bad: the voice of industrial fiction
  • 3. Speech on paper: Charles Dickens, Victorian phonography, and the reform of writing
  • 4. 'Done to death': Dickens and the author's voice
  • 5. Unuttered: withheld speech in Jane Eyre and Villette
  • 6. 'Hell's masterpiece of print': voice, face, and print in The Ring and the Book
  • 7. A voice without a body: the phonographic logic of Heart of Darkness.

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書名 Voice and the Victorian storyteller
著作者等 Kreilkamp, Ivan
Beer, Gillian
シリーズ名 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2005
ページ数 viii, 252 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521851939
NCID BA74009220
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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