Voices and Books in Early Modern England, 1500-1800

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，以探索新的方法来研究阅读的历史，考虑到书籍是如何表达和听到的。我们想要建立这种实践的普遍性，为了做到这一点，我们将共同探索可能服务于这一目的的证据和研究方法。我们的目标也是解释性的。我们将探讨大声朗读如何与其他类型的口述联系起来，它可以告诉我们早期现代文化（以及我们自己的时代）中书籍的公民生活，以及对表演的认识如何影响我们今天对早期现代写作的阅读。我们将与非hei合作伙伴合作，他们致力于今天的朗读活动的好处，以加强他们的实践，为这项活动增加历史维度，增加对社区早期现代作品的了解，同时增强我们对朗读和听力体验的理解。我们致力于探索合作的工作方式，在完成预定的活动后，将网络维持到未来。人们对“大声朗读”越来越感兴趣，尤其是在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。在现有的学术研究中，口头阅读并不是一种假设。相反，在过去的二十年里，那些勤奋好学、通常沉默寡言、手握笔的男性读者，被置于了舞台的中心。同时，“大声朗读”通常被理解得相当狭隘，只包括说话的声音，而我们也包括书中的“唱歌”。此外，阅读的历史发展到今天，往往是单独的学者在一个特定的时期和他们的学科中工作。因此，16 / 17世纪和18世纪“大声朗读”的历史发展是不同的。目前还没有汇集学科专业知识来建立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1500-1800年间的普遍经历。该项目旨在解决所有这些问题，鼓励学者分享方法、资源和历史。它将探索从书中唱歌作为一种大声朗读的形式，帮助音乐学家理解早期现代音乐文本的解释如何属于阅读的历史；这将有助于文学学者和历史学家利用音乐资源来探索非音乐表演和音乐表演的社会性；它将帮助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方法，以恢复历史的声音。它还将使来自所有这些学科的学者接触到从事非欧洲口头文化的人类学家的最新研究，以及对“共享阅读”或“公共阅读”的好处感兴趣和承诺的非hei合作伙伴。我们将与我们的非高等教育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的，用于大声朗读。我们将考虑对这种阅读体验的认识，在当时和现在，可能会如何影响，比如说，对后代的学术编辑，以及我们作为学术读者和单纯感兴趣的读者阅读各种早期文学的方式。

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.