Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

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 Bront 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.