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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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"?