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In bringing together a host 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.
Contents
1. Transforming Orality in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction
Anne-Julia Zwierlein and Katharina Herold-Zanker
Part I. Demographic and Democratic Change: New Public Voices
2. Local Lectures and the Transformation of Working-Class Literary Culture
Kirstie Blair
3. 'To give a word of sympathy': Agency, Activism, and Authorial Autobiomyths in Harriet Martineau's Autobiographical Accounts of Public Speech
Sandra Mayer
4. S.J. Celestine Edwards: 'Black Champion' of Late-Victorian Oral Culture
Robert Burroughs
5. 'Lectures from which no human being can possibly learn anything': The Gresham College Lectures 1832-1914
Martin Hewitt
6. 'The Influence of Beauty': Oscar Wilde, Lafcadio Hearn and the Aesthetic Lecture as Cultural Mediation
Katharina Herold-Zanker
Part II. Media Change and Intermediality: New Oral Shows
7. Seeing Voices: Image and Sound in Henry Cockton and Arthur Conan Doyle's Ventriloquial Texts
Christopher Pittard
8. The 'Perfect Circle' of Communication: Women's Suffrage Theatre, Political Speech, and Elizabeth Robins's Votes for Women!
Sos Eltis
9. Interviews, Pseudonyms, Avatars, and the Intimate Public Sphere: Simulating Orality in the Nineteenth-Century Press
Fionnualla Dillane
10. Interpreting Atrocity: Telling Stories of Omdurman
Holly Furneaux
11. Sounds without Sources: The Broadcasting of Speech and Song in the Victorian Age and Attentive Listening in George Eliot
Heidi Lucja Liedke
