Voice and the Victorian storyteller /
Kreilkamp, Ivan,

 

  • Voice and the Victorian storyteller /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 823.80926
    Title/Author: Voice and the Victorian storyteller // Ivan Kreilkamp.
    remainder title: Voice & the Victorian Storyteller
    Author: Kreilkamp, Ivan,
    Description: 1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
    Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
    Subject: Storytelling.
    Subject: English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century
    Subject: Voice in literature.
    ISBN: 9780511484865 (ebook)
    [NT 15000228]: "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.
    [NT 15000229]: 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.
    Online resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484865
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