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03485aam a22004938i 4500 001 0D227C7A621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170706010219 008 160722s2017 ilu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016033842 020 $a 022645696X 020 $a 9780226456966 035 $a (OCoLC)954134202 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CGU $d DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR905 $b .M37 2017 082 00 $a 825/.509 $2 23 100 1 $a McDowell, Paula, $e author. 245 14 $a The invention of the oral : $b print commerce and fugitive voices in eighteenth- century Britain / $c Paula McDowell. 263 $a 1704 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2017. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Oral tradition in the history of mediation -- Oral tradition as a tale of a tub: Jonathan Swift's oratorial machines -- The contagion of the oral in a Journal of the plague year -- Oratory transactions: John "Orator" Henley and his critics -- How to speak well in public: the elocution movement begins in earnest -- "Fair rhetoric" and the fishwives of Billingsgate -- "The art of printing was fatal": the idea of oral tradition in ballad discourse -- Conjecturing oral societies: global to Gaelic -- Coda: when did "orality" become a "culture"? 520 8 $a Just as today's embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, the rise of commercial print culture in eighteenth-century Britain inspired reflection at the time on the traditions that had seemingly preceded it. And so it was, as Paula McDowell shows in this book, that what we know as oral culture was identified and soon celebrated during the very period of the British book trade's ascendancy. McDowell recreates a world in which everyone from clergymen to fishwives, philosophers to street hucksters, competed for space and audiences in taverns, marketplaces, and the street. Their encounters forged new conceptions of the oral, as McDowell demonstrates through an impressive array of sources, including travel narratives, elocution manuals, theological writings, ballad collections, and legal records. 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. 650 0 $a Oral tradition $z England. 650 0 $a Oral communication $z England. 650 0 $a Printing $z England $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a English literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Oral communication. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01047000 650 7 $a Oral tradition. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01047117 650 7 $a Printing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01076612 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092812.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710092420.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170907010831.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0D227C7A621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search