The Invention of the Oral : Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain /

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Just as today's embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDowell, Paula (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Temas:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Oral communication > England.
Oral history > Great Britain > Sources.
Oral tradition > England.
Oral tradition > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Printing > England > History > 18th century.
Printing > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
concept formation.
folk.
media history.
media shift.
oral culture.
oral tradition.
orality.
print commerce.
print culture.
public sphere.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Oral Tradition in the History of Mediation
  • 2. Oral Tradition as A Tale of a Tub: Jonathan Swift's Oratorial Machines
  • 3. The Contagion of the Oral in A Journal of the Plague Year
  • 4. Oratory Transactions: John "Orator" Henley and His Critics
  • 5. How to Speak Well in Public: The Elocution Movement Begins in Earnest
  • 6. "Fair Rhet'ric" and the Fishwives of Billingsgate
  • 7. "The Art of Printing Was Fatal": The Idea of Oral Tradition in Ballad Discourse
  • 8. Conjecturing Oral Societies: Global to Gaelic
  • Coda: When Did "Orality" Become a "Culture"?
  • Notes
  • Index

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