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Author Straumann, Barbara, author

Title Female Performers in British and American Fiction / Barbara Straumann
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (313 pages)
Series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Ser. ; 58
Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Ser. ; 58
Contents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corinne and Her Aftereffects on the British Stage -- 3. Visionary Preaching in Britain and America -- 4. American Political Speakers -- 5. Acting Anxieties -- 6. Fin-de-Siècle Ventriloquism and Modernist Self-Authorship -- 7. Conclusion -- Illustration Credits -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary The female performer with a public voice constitutes a remarkably vibrant theme in British and American narratives of the long nineteenth century. The tension between fictional female performers and other textual voices can be seen to refigure the cultural debate over the 'voice' of women in aesthetically complex ways. By focusing on singers, actresses, preachers and speakers, this book traces and explores an important tradition of feminine articulation. Drawing on critical approaches in literary studies, gender studies and philosophy, the book conceptualizes voice for the discussion of narrative texts. Examining voice both as a thematic concern and as an aesthetic effect, the individual chapters analyse how the actual articulation by female performers correlates with their cultural visibility and agency. What this study foregrounds is how women characters succeed in making themselves heard even if their voices are silenced in the end
Analysis Voice
gender
long nineteenth century
narrative fiction
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Mai 2018)
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Women entertainers -- United States.
Women entertainers -- Great Britain
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
American fiction
American fiction -- Women authors
English fiction
English fiction -- Women authors
Women and literature
Women entertainers
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110561050
3110561050
9783110558425
3110558424