Voices and Books in Early Modern England, 1500-1800

该项目的目的是建立一个由早期现代学者(1500-1800年)和合作伙伴组成的网络，探索研究读书史的新方法，考虑到书籍是如何发声和被听到的。我们想要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为此目的服务的那种证据和研究方法。我们的目标也是解释性的。我们将探索朗读如何与其他类型的口述有关，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的什么，以及表演意识如何指导我们今天阅读早期现代写作。我们将与致力于今天朗读的好处的非HEI合作伙伴合作，以期加强他们的实践，为这项活动增加历史维度，并增加对社区早期现代作品的了解，同时也加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，以便在预定活动完成后将网络维持到未来。尤其是在18世纪的文学史学家中，人们对“朗读”的兴趣日益浓厚。尽管人们经常承认文艺复兴时期的书籍也经常被朗读，但我们对此知之甚少。在现有的学术研究中，口语阅读并不是一个假设。相反，在过去的20年里，勤奋而通常沉默的男性读者手持钢笔，被放在了舞台的中心。同时，“朗读”通常被理解得相当狭隘，只包括说话的声音，而我们也包括书本上的“唱歌”。此外，阅读的历史已经发展到目前为止，孤独的学者经常在特定的时期和他们的学科中工作。因此，在16/17世纪和18世纪，朗读的历史发展是不同的。还没有汇集学科专业知识来建立产生自信研究领域所需的证据和方法。尽管我们理解这是这本书的共同经历，1500-1800年。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。它将探索从书本上唱歌作为朗读的一种形式，帮助音乐学家理解对早期现代音乐文本的解释如何属于阅读历史；它将帮助文学学者和历史学家利用音乐资源来探索非音乐和音乐表演的社会性；它将帮助文学学者和音乐学家研究和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致力于非欧洲口头文化的人类学家最近的研究，以及对“共享阅读”或“公共阅读”的好处感兴趣并致力于此的非高等学校合作伙伴。我们将与我们的非高等学校合作伙伴一起探索如何对许多世纪前为朗读而写的文本进行估值并使其具有意义。我们将考虑这种阅读体验的意识，当时和现在，将如何为后代提供学术编辑方面的信息，以及我们阅读各种早期文献的方式，作为学术文献以及仅仅是感兴趣的读者。

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.