Special Interest Area Reading List
Sound, Listening, and Reading Aloud in the Nineteenth Century
Sound and Voice in Theory
Attali, Jacques. Noise: A Political Economy of Music. 1977. Trans. Brian Massumi. Ed. Frederic Jameson. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1985.Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Discourse in the Novel.” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin. 1967. Ed. M. Holquist. Trans. C. Emerson & M. Holquist. Austin: U Texas P, 2010. pp. 259-422.
Barthes, Roland. “The Grain of the Voice.” 1977. In The Sound Studies Reader. Ed. Jonathan Sterne. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. Print.
Chion, Michel. Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. 1990. Trans. Claudia Gorbman. New York: Columbia UP, 1994.
Derrida, Jacques. “The Voice that Keeps Silence.” Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs. Trans. D. Alan. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1973. 70-87.
Dolar, Mladen. A Voice and Nothing More. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2006.
Gaylin, Ann. Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2004.
Ihde, Don. Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound. 2nd ed. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 2007.
Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. 1982. John Hartley, Ed. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2002.
Rée, Jonathan. I See a Voice: Deafness, Language and the Senses: A Philosophical History. New York: Macmillan, 1999.
The Voice in/of Literature
Griffiths, Eric. The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1989.Kreilkamp, Ivan. Voice and the Victorian Storyteller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.
Prins, Yopie. “Voice Inverse.” Victorian Poetry 42.1 (Spring 2004): 43-59.
Smith, David Nowell. On Voice in Poetry: The Work of Animation. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.
Stewart, Garrett. Reading Voices: Literature and the Phonotext. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U California P, 1990.
Elocution, Recitation, and Reading Aloud
Sheridan, Thomas. A Course of Lectures on Elocution. London: W. Strahan, 1762.Steele, Joshua. An essay towards establishing the melody and measure of speech to be expressed and perpetuated by peculiar symbols. London: W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, 1775.
Walker, John. Elements of Elocution. London: Cadell, Becket, Robinson, Dodsley, 1781.
Rush, James. The Philosophy of the Human Voice: Embracing its physiological history. Philadelphia: J. Maxwell, 1827.
Collins, Philip. Reading Aloud: A Victorian Métier. Lincoln: The Tennyson Society Monographs, 1972.
Conquergood, Dwight. “Rethinking Elocution: The Trope of the Talking Book and Other Figures of Speech.” Text and Performance Quarterly 20.4 (October 2000): pp. 325-341.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romanticism and the Rise of English. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2009.
Michaelson, Patricia Howell. Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002. Print.
Pascoe, Judith. The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice. Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 2011.
Perkins, David. “How the Romantics Recited Poetry.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 3.4 (Autumn 1991): 655-71.
Robson, Catherine. Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2012.
Histories of Sound and Sonic Media
Camlot, Jason. "Early Talking Books: Spoken Recordings and Recitation Anthologies, 1880-1920." Book History 6 (2003): 147-73.Connor, Steven. Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Edison, Thomas. “The Phonograph and Its Future.” The North American Review 126.262 (1878): 527-536. JSTOR. 30 November 2015.
Gitelman, Lisa. Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
Johnson, James. Listening in Paris: A Cultural History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U California P, 1995.
Kittler, Friedrich A. Discourse Networks 1800/1900. Trans. Michael Metteer and Chris Cullens. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990.
Peters, John Durham. Speaking into the Air: A History of Communication. Chicago & London: U Chicago P, 1999.
Picker, John. Victorian Soundscapes. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.
Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2000.
Sterne, Jonathan. An Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Production. Durham & London: Duke UP, 2003.
Thompson, Emily. The Soundscapes of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2002.