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.