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Item Details
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VOICE AND THE VICTORIAN STORYTELLER
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By: |
Ivan Kreilkamp, Gillian Beer |
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Hardback |
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£84.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521851939 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521851930 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
3 November, 2005 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture No. 49 |
Pages: |
266 |
Description: |
In this 2005 book, Ivan Kreilkamp uncovers the importance of voice and the storyteller in the Victorian novel. |
Synopsis: |
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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UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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