Embodied Voices

Contents

• Introduction;
• Part I . Vocality, Textuality, and the Silencing of the Female Voice:
• 1. The Gorgon and the nightingale: the voice of female lament and Pindar's Twelfth Pythian Ode;
• 2. Music and the maternal voice in Purgatorio XIX;
• 3. Ophelia's songs in Hamlet: music, madness and the feminine;
• 4. Wordsworth and Romantic voice: the poet's song and the prostitute's cry;
• Part II . Anxieties of Audition:
• 5. 'No women are indeed': the boy actor as vocal seductress in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama;
• 6. Deriding the voice of Jeanette MacDonald: notes on psychoanalysis and the American film musical;
• 7. Adorno and the Sirens: tele-phono-graphic bodies;
• Part III . Women Artists: Vocality and Cultural Authority:
• 8. The diva doesn't die: George Eliot's Armgart;
• 9. Rewriting Ophelia: fluidity, madness, and the voice in Louise Colet's La Servante;
• 10. Staring the camera down: direct address and women's voices;
• 11. The voice of lament: female vocality and performative efficacy in the Finnish-Karelian itkuvirsi;
• Part IV . Maternal Voices:
• 12. The lyrical dimensions of spirituality: music, voice, and language in the novels of Toni Morrison;
• 13. Red hot mamas: Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, and the ethnic maternal voice in American popular song;
• 14. Maternalism and the material girl Nancy J. Vickers.