Voice and the Victorian storyteller / Ivan Kreilkamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreilkamp, Ivan, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 49.

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Voice in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Voice & the Victorian Storyteller

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Brontë, 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.

Contents:

"The best man of all" : mythologies of the storyteller

When good speech acts go bad : the voice of industrial fiction

Speech on paper : Charles Dickens, Victorian phonography, and the reform of writing

"Done to death" : Dickens and the author's voice

Unuttered : withheld speech in Jane Eyre and Villette

"Hell's masterpiece of print" : voice, face, and print in The ring and the book

A voice without a body : the phonographic logic of Heart of darkness.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-248) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15427-8

1-280-30901-6

0-511-13440-1

0-511-20168-0

0-511-13747-8

0-511-32436-7

0-511-48486-0

0-511-13530-0

OCLC:

252487845

Publisher Number:

9780521851930