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100			_aMcGuire, Riley _925040
245			_aDysfluent in fiction: _bvocal disability and nineteenth-century literature
260			_aColumbus _bThe Ohio State University Press _c2025
300			_ax, 214 p.
365			_aINR _b2883.06
500			_aTable of contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction The Stammering Century Chapter 1 Lisping Lovers: Plotting Dysfluent Union in Thackeray and Brontë Chapter 2 Refusing to Grow Up and Speak Right: Prosthetic Authorship and Dysfluent Choice in Dodgson Chapter 3 “The Dumb Detec(k)tive”: Braddon’s Professionalization of the Mute Role Chapter 4 Our American Cousin, Our Dysfluent Nation: Celebrity Speech Disorder on the Transatlantic Stage Chapter 5 “I Have Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue”: Enslavement, Dysfluency, and the Vocal Metaphors of Freedom Coda “Th-th-th-that’s All, Folks!” Works Cited Index [https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215869.html]
520			_a“McGuire deftly combines literary texts, biographical and historical sources, reception theory, and contemporary criticism to illuminate vocal disability not as a minor aspect of secondary characters but as a central facet of nineteenth-century narratives.” —Karen Bourrier, author of Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik “A standout feature of Dysfluent in Fiction is that it stays true to the project of dysfluency—it refuses to reduce a study of vocal disability to a liberatory project that might overstate dysfluency’s resistance of fluent speech’s hegemonic and sovereign assumptions. An original, well-researched, nuanced treatment of a neglected subject.” —Amy R. Wong, author of Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire and the Poetics of Talk In Dysfluent in Fiction, Riley McGuire unspools a literary history of vocal disability in the nineteenth century, arguing that this underexamined literary trope helps us to understand vocal hierarchies that still structure our present. Adopting the term “dysfluency” to show departure from normative expectations of pace, pitch, and fluency, McGuire reveals how dysfluent speech populates an enormous number of nineteenth-century texts and played a formative role in the lives of some of the period’s most influential writers. Dysfluent in Fiction examines anglophone literature during the long nineteenth century in both England and America by authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Frederick Douglass. Examples of dysfluencies across genres include lisping lovers, a baby-talking fairy, a mute detective, various disabilities in narratives of enslavement, and more. These representations show how disabled speech was both stigmatized and celebrated in ways that clarify our contemporary response to the spectrum of human articulation and that are a vocal corollary to current notions of neurodiversity. Dysfluency’s power, McGuire contends, lies in its denial that a single mode of articulation is possible, let alone desirable. (https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215869.html)
650			_aSpeech disorders in literature _925521
650			_aEnglish fiction--19th century--History and criticism _925522
650			_aAmerican fiction--19th century--History and criticism _925523
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