Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

Informationen zum Autor Ivan Kreilkamp is an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University. Klappentext Ivan Kreilkamp uncovers the importance of voice and the storyteller in the Victorian novel. Zusammenfassung Ivan Kreilkamp shows that the nineteenth-century novel was deeply marked by and engaged with vocal performances and the preservation and representation of speech. This innovative 2005 study will change the way readers consider the Victorian novel and its many ways of telling stories. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ivan Kreilkamp, Ivan (Indiana University) Kreilkamp, V. Kreilkamp, Kreilkamp Ivan
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521111492
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11149-2
• Seiten: 268
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form