Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction [electronic resource] : Passionate Puppets /
Davies, H.author.
Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth century? This book explores the sexual politics of dialogues between the nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, offering a new insight into the concept of ventriloquism as a textual and metatextual theme in literature.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Victorians for Dummies? Talking Back to the Nineteenth Century; 1 Voices from the Past: Rethinking the Ventriloquial Metaphor; 2 Victorian Ventriloquists: Henry James and George Du Maurier; 3 Sirens and Svengalis: Nights at the Circus, Alias Grace and Clara; 4 Queering the Dummy/Ventriloquist Dichotomy: Oscar Wilde and Ventriloquial Influence; 5 Sexual Re-scripting: Ventriloquial Repetitions and Transformations in Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet and Affinity
6 Talking to Ourselves? Ventriloquial Criticism and Readership in Neo-Victorian FictionAfterword: Voices Beyond the Victorian Era? Wesley Stace and Ventriloquism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth century? This book explores the sexual politics of dialogues between the nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, offering a new insight into the concept of ventriloquism as a textual and metatextual theme in literature.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Sociology.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.