Dysfluent in fiction : vocal disability and nineteenth-century literature /
A transatlantic literary history of vocal disability and speech disorders in the long nineteenth century. Examines authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Frederick Douglass to argue that earlier tropes of vocal disab...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2025].
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| Summary: | A transatlantic literary history of vocal disability and speech disorders in the long nineteenth century. Examines authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Frederick Douglass to argue that earlier tropes of vocal disability help us to understand contemporary vocal hierarchies. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814215869 0814215866 |