Anne-Julia Zwierlein is Professor and Chair of English Literature and Culture at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany. Katharina Herold-Zanker is Assistant Professor in Literature and Drama at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.

• 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

Anne-Julia Zwierlein is Professor and Chair of English Literature and Culture at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany. Katharina Herold-Zanker is Assistant Professor in Literature and Drama at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.

• 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

Anne-Julia Zwierlein is Professor and Chair of English Literature and Culture at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany. Katharina Herold-Zanker is Assistant Professor in Literature and Drama at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.

• 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