Transforming Orality: Articulating Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvAnne-Julia Zwierlein,Katharina Herold-Zanker

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In bringing together a group of international experts on Victorian oral culture, this collection examines formats of public orality in the long nineteenth century from a cultural-historical perspective, treating the evolving scene of oral culture as a symptom and catalyst of social, political, and media change. The volume asks how nineteenth-century oral performances, alongside literary and journalistic mediations and representations of orality, ‘articulated’ social change by highlighting the multiplicity and increasingly complex intermediality of oral formats, as well as their own generic and mediatic malleability. The collection argues that the changing formats of oral speech can be seen as performative modes of presentation that were further differentiated by (shifting and intersectional) categories of identity, such as race, gender, and class. Across the various perspectives with which the individual essays approach orality, the volume, in emphasising the forms and formats of orality, firmly insists that represented speech is never merely ‘content’, but also performed ‘form’, with its own inherent performative politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-02-03
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781805966791

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1. Transforming Orality in the Nineteenth Century: An IntroductionAnne-Julia Zwierlein and Katharina Herold-ZankerPart I. Demographic and Democratic Change: New Public Voices2. Local Lectures and the Transformation of Working-Class Literary CultureKirstie Blair3. ‘To give a word of sympathy’: Agency, Activism, and Authorial Autobiomyths in Harriet Martineau’s Autobiographical Accounts of Public SpeechSandra Mayer4. S.J. Celestine Edwards: ‘Black Champion’ of Late-Victorian Oral CultureRobert Burroughs5. ‘Lectures from which no human being can possibly learn anything’: The Gresham College Lectures 1832–1914Martin Hewitt6. ‘The Influence of Beauty’: Oscar Wilde, Lafcadio Hearn and the Aesthetic Lecture as Cultural MediationKatharina Herold-ZankerPart II. Media Change and Intermediality: New Oral Shows7. Seeing Voices: Image and Sound in Henry Cockton and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Ventriloquial TextsChristopher Pittard8. The ‘Perfect Circle’ of Communication: Women’s Suffrage Theatre, Political Speech, and Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women!Sos Eltis9. Interviews, Pseudonyms, Avatars, and the Intimate Public Sphere: Simulating Orality in the Nineteenth-Century PressFionnualla Dillane10. Interpreting Atrocity: Telling Stories of OmdurmanHolly Furneaux11. Sounds without Sources: The Broadcasting of Speech and Song in the Victorian Age and Attentive Listening in George EliotHeidi Lucja Liedke