Chris Eagle (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Research Lecturer in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Neurolinguistic TurnChapter 1: Aphasia and Neurology in Zola and Proust• “la vièille paralytique”• “nervous being”• “raucous sounds”• “menacé d’aphasie”• “whispered words”Chapter 2: Speech Disorders and Shell Shock in World War I Writing• “Kindred Disorders”• “no stammer previous to shock”• “You can’t communicate noise”• “the new voice from Craiglockhart”Chapter 3: Stuttering and Sexuality in Woolf, Melville, Kesey, and Mishima• “shy and stammering”• “organic hesitancy”• “m-m-m-m-mamma”• “The Rusty Key”Chapter 4: Stuttering, Violence, and the Politics of Voice in Graves, Roth, and Jones• “vox populi”• “though he do limp and stammer a bit”• “angry because she stutters”• “haltings and erasures”Chapter 5: Tourettic Speech in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn• “la maladie des tics”• “the world (or my brain – same thing)”• “to tic freely”• “Those walls of language”• “Tourette’s muse was with me” Conclusion: On Speech Disorders in Theory BibliographyIndex

Dysfluencies: On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature is an authoritative and important book that creates a model for interdisciplinary studies that will enlarge the horizon of scholarly work for years to come. Its study of modern literatures – British, American, French, Japanese, Australian – creates a significant rethinking of literary history in relation to neurological and clinical understandings of representations of behavior, personality, and motivation in literary texts. It does so by bringing together the diverse disciplines of medicine, neurology, psychology, and poetics in creating a rich sense of the power of language and discourse as it is inflected by intellectual culture. Its understanding of speech disorder as not only a deficit but also as a “superabundance” of linguistic function has much to teach medicine and neurology, just as it demonstrates throughout how literary studies and simply the experience of reading can be enriched in the light of the systematic knowledge and practical work of neuroscience and medicine. For readers in all these disciplines, Dysfluencies offers a mode of comprehension that will make their understanding and work more inclusive, more humane, and more fulfilling.

Chris Eagle (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Research Lecturer in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Neurolinguistic TurnChapter 1: Aphasia and Neurology in Zola and Proust• “la vièille paralytique”• “nervous being”• “raucous sounds”• “menacé d’aphasie”• “whispered words”Chapter 2: Speech Disorders and Shell Shock in World War I Writing• “Kindred Disorders”• “no stammer previous to shock”• “You can’t communicate noise”• “the new voice from Craiglockhart”Chapter 3: Stuttering and Sexuality in Woolf, Melville, Kesey, and Mishima• “shy and stammering”• “organic hesitancy”• “m-m-m-m-mamma”• “The Rusty Key”Chapter 4: Stuttering, Violence, and the Politics of Voice in Graves, Roth, and Jones• “vox populi”• “though he do limp and stammer a bit”• “angry because she stutters”• “haltings and erasures”Chapter 5: Tourettic Speech in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn• “la maladie des tics”• “the world (or my brain – same thing)”• “to tic freely”• “Those walls of language”• “Tourette’s muse was with me” Conclusion: On Speech Disorders in Theory BibliographyIndex

Dysfluencies: On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature is an authoritative and important book that creates a model for interdisciplinary studies that will enlarge the horizon of scholarly work for years to come. Its study of modern literatures – British, American, French, Japanese, Australian – creates a significant rethinking of literary history in relation to neurological and clinical understandings of representations of behavior, personality, and motivation in literary texts. It does so by bringing together the diverse disciplines of medicine, neurology, psychology, and poetics in creating a rich sense of the power of language and discourse as it is inflected by intellectual culture. Its understanding of speech disorder as not only a deficit but also as a “superabundance” of linguistic function has much to teach medicine and neurology, just as it demonstrates throughout how literary studies and simply the experience of reading can be enriched in the light of the systematic knowledge and practical work of neuroscience and medicine. For readers in all these disciplines, Dysfluencies offers a mode of comprehension that will make their understanding and work more inclusive, more humane, and more fulfilling.

Chris Eagle (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Research Lecturer in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Neurolinguistic TurnChapter 1: Aphasia and Neurology in Zola and Proust• “la vièille paralytique”• “nervous being”• “raucous sounds”• “menacé d’aphasie”• “whispered words”Chapter 2: Speech Disorders and Shell Shock in World War I Writing• “Kindred Disorders”• “no stammer previous to shock”• “You can’t communicate noise”• “the new voice from Craiglockhart”Chapter 3: Stuttering and Sexuality in Woolf, Melville, Kesey, and Mishima• “shy and stammering”• “organic hesitancy”• “m-m-m-m-mamma”• “The Rusty Key”Chapter 4: Stuttering, Violence, and the Politics of Voice in Graves, Roth, and Jones• “vox populi”• “though he do limp and stammer a bit”• “angry because she stutters”• “haltings and erasures”Chapter 5: Tourettic Speech in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn• “la maladie des tics”• “the world (or my brain – same thing)”• “to tic freely”• “Those walls of language”• “Tourette’s muse was with me” Conclusion: On Speech Disorders in Theory BibliographyIndex

Dysfluencies: On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature is an authoritative and important book that creates a model for interdisciplinary studies that will enlarge the horizon of scholarly work for years to come. Its study of modern literatures – British, American, French, Japanese, Australian – creates a significant rethinking of literary history in relation to neurological and clinical understandings of representations of behavior, personality, and motivation in literary texts. It does so by bringing together the diverse disciplines of medicine, neurology, psychology, and poetics in creating a rich sense of the power of language and discourse as it is inflected by intellectual culture. Its understanding of speech disorder as not only a deficit but also as a “superabundance” of linguistic function has much to teach medicine and neurology, just as it demonstrates throughout how literary studies and simply the experience of reading can be enriched in the light of the systematic knowledge and practical work of neuroscience and medicine. For readers in all these disciplines, Dysfluencies offers a mode of comprehension that will make their understanding and work more inclusive, more humane, and more fulfilling.