Ivan Kreilkamp, V. Kreilkamp

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ivan Kreilkamp uncovers the importance of voice and the storyteller in the Victorian novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521111492
• ISBN-10: 0521111498
• Artikelnr.: 26057310

Autorenporträt

Ivan Kreilkamp is an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.