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Sounding bodies and voices in nineteenth-century British and American Gothic fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sounding bodies and voices in nineteenth-century British and American Gothic fiction./
Author:	Schlauraff, Kristie Ann.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	190 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-04A(E).
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10195525
ISBN:	9781369343908

Sounding bodies and voices in nineteenth-century British and American Gothic fiction.
Schlauraff, Kristie Ann.

Sounding bodies and voices in nineteenth-century British and American Gothic fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 190 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2017.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

When George Du Maurier's infamous mesmerist Svengali performs on his elastic penny whistle, the instrument produces a sound "more human almost than the human voice itself." The suggestion that a voice could be more, or conversely less, human calls attention to the precariousness of a category under threat in the nineteenth century. My project confronts the enigmatic nature of voices in transatlantic Gothic fiction in relation to definitions of the human, attending to figures that frustrate taxonomic classification in sonic as well as visual terms. Discussions of stethoscopic listening, physiognomy, vivisection, and mesmerism in Britain and the United States frame my chapters, underscoring a nineteenth-century preoccupation with embodiment foundational for both literary and medical knowledge. Through an analysis of bodies as soundscapes in the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G. Wells, among others, my project discovers an attention to voice as a recalcitrant force that subverts scientific authority over bodies. Michel Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic famously establishes the authoritative gaze as rendering bodies knowable, but I contend that the audible world remained a contested and occulted space that resisted classification. Sound was central to nineteenth-century investigations of the human.

ISBN: 9781369343908Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.

Sounding bodies and voices in nineteenth-century British and American Gothic fiction.
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