Chapter 1 Introduction: The Victorians for Dummies? Talking Back to the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 2 Voices from the Past: Rethinking the Ventriloquial Metaphor

Chapter 4 Sirens and Svengalis: Nights at the Circus, Alias Grace and Clara

Chapter 5 Queering the Dummy/ Ventriloquist Dichotomy: Oscar Wilde and Ventriloquial Influence

Chapter 6 Sexual Re-scripting: Ventriloquial Repetitions and Transformations in Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet and Affinity

Chapter 7 Talking to Ourselves? Ventriloquial Criticism and Readership in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Chapter 8 Afterword: Voices Beyond the Victorian Era? Wesley Stace and Ventriloquism