Our American Cousin, our dysfluent nation: Transatlantic stammering on the nineteenth-century stage

This article reconstructs the underexamined stage history and reception of one of the most popular stammering figures of the nineteenth century: the bumbling aristocrat Lord Dundreary, as performed by E. A. Sothern.

https://doi.org/10.1386/jivs_00022_1

Country

United Kingdom

Publisher

Intellect

Source

Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies

Volume

Vol. 5 No. 2

Page

147-162

McGuire, Riley. “Our American Cousin, Our Dysfluent Nation: Transatlantic Stammering on the Nineteenth-Century Stage.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, vol. 5, no. 2. Intellect Publishing, 2021, pp. 147-162. https://doi.org/10.1386/jivs_00022_1

Excerpt: Riley McGuire