Dysfluent in fiction : vocal disability and nineteenth-century literature / Riley McGuire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGuire, Riley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech disorders in literature.

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

English fiction.

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

American fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"A transatlantic literary history of vocal disability and speech disorders in the long nineteenth century. Examines authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Frederick Douglass to argue that earlier tropes of vocal disability help us to understand contemporary vocal hierarchies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The stammering century

Lisping lovers : plotting dysfluent union in Thackeray and Brontë

Refusing to grow up and speak right : prosthetic authorship and dysfluent choice in Dodgson

"The dumb detec(k)tive" : Braddon's professionalization of the mute role

Our American cousin, our dysfluent nation : celebrity speech disorder on the transatlantic stage

"I have cut loose your stammering tongue" : enslavement, dysfluency, and the vocal metaphors of freedom

Coda: "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814215869

0814215866

OCLC:

1493303630

Publisher Number:

90101742047