This issue, guest edited by James Emmott and Tom F. Wright, examines the complex literary and historical relationships between voice, sound, and print cultures in the nineteenth century. The articles gathered here consider the legacy of Walter Ong, political speech and the novel, spoken-word recording and poetry, heredity and the phonograph, popular fiction and radical speech-making, gossip and communal orality, and the fusions of oratory and reading in mid-century campaigning.
Articles
Orality and Literacy in Transatlantic Perspective
- Sandra Gustafson
Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy
‘His father’s voice’: Phonographs and Heredity in the Fiction of Samuel Butler
- Will Abberley
Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy
Spoken Word and Printed Page: G. W. M. Reynolds and ‘The Charing-Cross Revolution’, 1848
- Mary Shannon
Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy