Gender and ventriloquism in Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction : passionate puppets / Helen Davies.

Author/Creator:

Davies, Helen C. (Helen Caroline)

Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Format/Description:

Book
viii, 211 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Gender identity in literature.
Ventriloquism -- In literature.
Sex role in literature.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.

Contents:

Introduction : the Victorians for dummies? : talking back to the nineteenth century
Voices from the past : rethinking the ventriloquial metaphor
Victorian ventriloquists : Henry James and George Du Maurier
Sirens and Svengalis : Nights at the circus, Alias Grace, and Clara
Queering the dummy/ventriloquist dichotomy : Oscar Wilde and ventriloquial Influence
Sexual re-scripting : ventriloquial repetitions and transformations in Sarah Waters' Tipping the velvet and Affinity
Talking to ourselves? : ventriloquial criticism and readership in neo-Victorian fiction
Afterword : voices beyond the Victorian era? : Wesley Stace and ventriloquism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-201) and index.

ISBN:

9780230343665
023034366X

OCLC:

793573098

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