Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Abstract

Introduction: The stammering century -- Lisping lovers : plotting dysfluent union in Thackeray and Brontë -- Refusing to grow up and speak right : prosthetic authorship and dysfluent choice in Dodgson -- "The dumb detec(k)tive" : Braddon's professionalization of the mute role -- Our American cousin, our dysfluent nation : celebrity speech disorder on the transatlantic stage -- "I have cut loose your stammering tongue" : enslavement, dysfluency, and the vocal metaphors of freedom -- Coda: "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!