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The invention of the oral : print commerce and fugitive voices in eighteenth- century Britain /

Just as today's embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, the rise of commercial print culture in eighteenth-century Britain inspired reflection at the time on the traditions that had seemingly preceded it. And so it was, as Paula McDowell shows in this book,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDowell, Paula (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Oral tradition in the history of mediation
  • Oral tradition as a tale of a tub: Jonathan Swift's oratorial machines
  • The contagion of the oral in a Journal of the plague year
  • Oratory transactions: John "Orator" Henley and his critics
  • How to speak well in public: the elocution movement begins in earnest
  • "Fair rhetoric" and the fishwives of Billingsgate
  • "The art of printing was fatal": the idea of oral tradition in ballad discourse
  • Conjecturing oral societies: global to Gaelic
  • Coda: when did "orality" become a "culture"?