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  • Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy

    Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy


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

Introduction: Orality and Literacy

James Emmott and Tom Wright

2014-05-23 Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy

Orality and Literacy in Transatlantic Perspective

Orality and Literacy in Transatlantic Perspective

Sandra Gustafson

2014-05-09 Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy

Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine

Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine

Matthew Rubery

2014-04-23 Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy

‘His father’s voice’: Phonographs and Heredity in the Fiction of Samuel Butler

‘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

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

‘The screaming streets’: Voice and the Spaces of Gossip in Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and Liza of Lambeth (1897)

‘The screaming streets’: Voice and the Spaces of Gossip in Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and Liza of Lambeth (1897)

Eliza Cubitt

2014-05-23 Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy

‘The shouts of vanished crowds’: Literacy, Orality, and Popular Politics in the Campaign to Repeal the Act of Union in Ireland, 1840–48

‘The shouts of vanished crowds’: Literacy, Orality, and Popular Politics in the Campaign to Repeal the Act of Union in Ireland, 1840–48

Huston Gilmore

2014-05-09 Issue 18 • 2014 • Orality and Literacy