1. 'The best man of all': mythologies of the storyteller; 2. When good speech acts go bad: the voice of industrial fiction; 3. Speech on paper: Charles Dickens, Victorian phonography, and the reform of writing; 4. 'Done to death': Dickens and the author's voice; 5. Unuttered: withheld speech in Jane Eyre and Villette; 6. 'Hell's masterpiece of print': voice, face, and print in The Ring and the Book; 7. A voice without a body: the phonographic logic of Heart of Darkness.
In this 2005 book, Ivan Kreilkamp uncovers the importance of voice and the storyteller in the Victorian novel.
Ivan Kreilkamp is an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University.
'... exciting and suggestive analysis.' Times Literary Supplement
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