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
Introduction: Orality and Literacy
James Emmott and Tom Wright
2014-05-23 Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy
Orality and Literacy in Transatlantic Perspective
Sandra Gustafson
2014-05-09 Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy
‘His father’s voice’: Phonographs and Heredity in the Fiction of Samuel Butler
Will Abberley
2014-05-09 Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy
Spoken Word and Printed Page: G. W. M. Reynolds and ‘The Charing-Cross Revolution’, 1848
Mary Shannon
2014-05-09 Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy