Voices and Books in Early Modern England, 1500-1800

现代早期英国的声音和书籍，1500-1800 年

• 批准号: AH/L006561/1
• 负责人: Jennifer Richards
• 金额: $ 3.63万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL006561%2F1
• 关键词: Voices; Books; Early; Modern; England

The aim of this project is to establish a network of early modern scholars (1500-1800) and partners to explore new approaches to the history of reading that take account of how books were voiced and heard. We want to establish the ubiquity of this practice, and in order to do so will explore together the kind of evidence and research methods that might serve this end. Our aims are also interpretive. We will explore how reading aloud relates to other kinds of orality, what it can tell us about the civic life of the book in early modern culture (and in our own time too), and how awareness of performance might inform our reading of early modern writing today. We will work with non-HEI Partners who are committed to the benefits of Reading Aloud today with a view to enhancing their practice, adding a historical dimension to this activity and also increasing knowledge of early modern writings in the community, while also enhancing our understanding of the experience of reading aloud and listening. We are committed to exploring collaborative ways of working that will sustain the network into the future, after the completion of scheduled activities. There is burgeoning interest in 'reading aloud' especially among literary historians of the eighteenth century. Although it is often acknowledged that Renaissance books were routinely read aloud too, we know relatively little about this. Oral reading is not embedded as an assumption in existing scholarship. On the contrary, over the last two decades it is the studious and usually silent male reader, pen in hand, who has been placed centre stage. At the same time, 'reading aloud' is usually understood rather narrowly, to involve the speaking voice only whereas we include 'singing' from books too. Plus, the history of reading has developed to date with lone scholars working, very often, on a specific period and in their discipline. So the history of reading *aloud* in the sixteenth / seventeenth centuries and the eighteenth century is developing differently. There hasn't been the pooling of disciplinary expertise to establish the evidence and methods needed to generate a confident research area. This is despite the fact that we understand that this was the common experience of the book, 1500-1800.This project sets out to address all of these issues, encouraging scholars to share methods, resources and histories. It will explore singing from books as a form of reading aloud, helping musicologists to understand how the interpretation of early modern musical texts belongs to the history of reading; it will help literary scholars and historians to use musical resources to explore the sociability of non-musical as well as musical performance; it will help literary scholars and musicologists to work with and understand the methods being developed by linguists to recover the historical voice. It will also bring scholars from all of these disciplines into contact with the recent research of anthropologists working on non-European oral cultures, and with non-HEI partners who have an interest in and commitment to the benefits of 'shared reading' or 'public reading'. We will explore together with our non-HEI partners ways of valuing and making meaningful today texts that were written to be read aloud many centuries ago. We will consider how awareness of this reading experience, then and now, might inform, say, scholarly editing for future generations, as well as the the way we read all kinds of earlier literatures as scholarly as well as simply interested readers.

该项目的目的是建立一个早期现代学者（1500-1800）和合作伙伴的网络，以探索阅读的历史，考虑到书籍是如何发声和听到的新方法。我们想确定这种做法的普遍性，为了做到这一点，我们将共同探索可能有助于这一目的的证据和研究方法。我们的目标也是解释性的。我们将探讨阅读如何与其他类型的口述联系起来，它能告诉我们关于早期现代文化（以及我们自己的时代）中这本书的公民生活，以及对表演的意识如何影响我们今天的早期现代写作的阅读。我们将与非HEI合作伙伴谁是致力于阅读今天的好处，以提高他们的做法，增加了历史层面的这项活动，也增加了早期现代作品在社会上的知识，同时也提高了我们的阅读和听力的经验的理解。我们致力于探索合作的工作方式，以便在预定活动完成后，使该网络能够持续到未来。人们对“阅读”的兴趣正在迅速增长，特别是在18世纪的文学史学家中。尽管人们经常承认文艺复兴时期的书籍也经常被大声朗读，但我们对此知之甚少。口语阅读在现有的学术研究中并不是一个假设。相反，在过去的二十年里，是那些勤奋、通常沉默的男性读者，手里拿着笔，被置于舞台的中心。同时，“阅读”通常被理解得相当狭窄，只涉及说话的声音，而我们也包括从书中“唱歌”。此外，阅读的历史发展到今天，孤独的学者工作，往往是在一个特定的时期和他们的纪律。因此，阅读的历史在16/17世纪和18世纪的发展是不同的。还没有汇集学科专业知识来建立产生一个有信心的研究领域所需的证据和方法。尽管我们知道这是这本书的共同经历，1500- 1800。这个项目着手解决所有这些问题，鼓励学者分享方法，资源和历史。它将探讨从书中歌唱作为一种形式的阅读大声，帮助音乐学家了解如何解释早期现代音乐文本属于历史的阅读;它将帮助文学学者和历史学家利用音乐资源，探讨社会性的非音乐以及音乐表演;它将有助于文学学者和音乐学家与语言学家合作并理解语言学家正在开发的恢复历史声音的方法。它还将使来自所有这些学科的学者接触到人类学家对非欧洲口头文化的最新研究，以及对“共享阅读”或“公共阅读”的利益感兴趣和承诺的非HEI合作伙伴。我们将与我们的非HEI合作伙伴一起探索如何评价和制作有意义的今天的文本，这些文本是在许多世纪前写出来大声朗读的。我们将考虑如何意识到这种阅读经验，当时和现在，可能会通知，说，学术编辑为后代，以及我们阅读各种早期文献的方式作为学术以及简单的感兴趣的读者。

项目成果

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading

英国文艺复兴时期的声音和书籍：新的阅读史

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Richardson

The Anatomy of the Renaissance Voice

文艺复兴时期声音的剖析

• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Richards, J;Wistreich, R
• 通讯作者: Wistreich, R

Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750: Studies in Social Rank and Communication

英国的言语、印刷和礼仪，1600--1750 年：社会等级和传播研究

• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Jajdelska Elspeth

Introduction: Voicing Text 1500-1700

简介：配音文本 1500-1700

• DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2019.0000
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Huntington Library Quarterly
• 影响因子: 0.3
• 作者: Richards J

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

书籍的社交生活：十八世纪家庭中的一起阅读

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Williams Abigail