ISBN: 9780226457017

Just as today's embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent effor… Plus…

Just as today's embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell argues, that our modern concepts of oral culture and print culture began to crystallize, and authors and intellectuals drew on older theological notion of oral tradition to forge the modern secular notion of oral tradition that we know today.Drawing on an impressive array of sources including travel narratives, elocution manuals, theological writings, ballad collections, and legal records, McDowell re-creates a world in which everyone from fishwives to philosophers, clergymen to street hucksters, competed for space and audiences in taverns, marketplaces, and the street. She argues that the earliest positive efforts to theorize "oral tradition," and to depict popular oral culture as a culture (rather than a lack of culture), were prompted less by any protodemocratic impulse than by a profound discomfort with new cultures of reading, writing, and even speaking shaped by print.Challenging traditional models of oral versus literate societies and key assumptions about culture's ties to the spoken and the written word, this landmark study reorients critical conversations across eighteenth-century studies, media and communications studies, the history of the book, and beyond. Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain University of Chicago Press Literary Criticism concept formation;folk;media shift;media history;oral culture;orality;oral tradition;public sphere;print commerce;print culture 9780226456966 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English Literature, The University of Chicago Press<

ISBN: 9780226457017

Just as today’s embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent… Plus…

Just as today’s embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell argues, that our modern concepts of oral culture and print culture began to crystallize, and authors and intellectuals drew on older theological notion of oral tradition to forge the modern secular notion of oral tradition that we know today.   Drawing on an impressive array of sources including travel narratives, elocution manuals, theological writings, ballad collections, and legal records, McDowell re-creates a world in which everyone from fishwives to philosophers, clergymen to street hucksters, competed for space and audiences in taverns, marketplaces, and the street. She argues that the earliest positive efforts to theorize oral tradition, and to depict popular oral culture as a culture (rather than a lack of culture), were prompted less by any protodemocratic impulse than by a profound discomfort with new cultures of reading, writing, and even speaking shaped by print.   Challenging traditional models of oral versus literate societies and key assumptions about culture’s ties to the spoken and the written word, this landmark study reorients critical conversations across eighteenth-century studies, media and communications studies, the history of the book, and beyond.   Digital Content>E-books>Classics>Coll Classics>Lit Companions, University of Chicago Press Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780226457017

University of Chicago Press Literary Criticism concept formation;folk;media shift;media history;oral culture;orality;oral tradition;public sphere;print commerce;print culture 978022645696… Plus…

University of Chicago Press Literary Criticism concept formation;folk;media shift;media history;oral culture;orality;oral tradition;public sphere;print commerce;print culture 9780226456966, UK,GB,DE,ES,FR,IT,US,CA,MX,AU,NZ 20170613 English Literature, The University of Chicago Press<

ISBN: 9780226457017

By Paula McDowell PRINT ISBN: 9780226456966 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780226457017 Edition: 1 University of Chicago Press eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., Univers… Plus…

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