Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge Studies in by Ivan Kreilkamp

By Ivan Kreilkamp

The nineteenth-century novel has consistently been considered as a literary shape pre-eminently fascinated about the written observe, yet Ivan Kreilkamp indicates it used to be deeply marked via and engaged with vocal performances and the protection and illustration of speech. He bargains a close account of the numerous methods Victorian literature and tradition represented the human voice, from political speeches, governesses' stories, shorthand manuals, and staged authorial performances within the early- and mid-century, to routinely reproducible voice on the finish of the century. via readings of Charlotte Brontë, Browning, Carlyle, Conrad, Dickens, Disraeli and Gaskell, Kreilkamp re-evaluates serious assumptions in regards to the cultural meanings of storytelling, and exhibits that the determine of the oral storyteller, instead of disappearing between readers' choice for revealed texts, continued as a personality and a functionality in the novel. This 2005 learn will switch the best way readers think of the Victorian novel and its some ways of telling stories.

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