TY - BOOK AU - Straumann,Barbara TI - Female Performers in British and American Fiction T2 - Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , SN - 9783110558425 AV - PN56.5.W64 S76 2018 U1 - 820.8008 23/eng/20230216 PY - 2018///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - American fiction KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - English fiction KW - Women and literature KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - United States KW - Women entertainers KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Voice KW - gender KW - long nineteenth century KW - narrative fiction N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110561043 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110561043 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110561043/original ER -