Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. 1 Introduction 1
4. I The Age of Performance (since c. 70,000 BCE)
5. 2 Voice and Hand 21
6. 3 The Medieval and Early Modern Book 43
7. 4 Theatre and Drama: Liveness on the Stage 63
8. II The Age of Representation (since c. 1500 CE)
9. 5 Print Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century 85
10. 6 Paper Worlds: The Novel as Object and Form 103
11. 7 Voice and Breath in Romantic and Victorian Poetry 127
12. III The Age of Connection (since c. 1850 CE)
13. 8 Touch: Literature as Telecommunication 147
14. 9 Sound: Phonography, Telephony, Radio, Noise 161
15. 10 Vision: Text and Image 179
16. 11 Screen: Literature and the Moving Image 197
17. 12 Web: Literature in the Digital Age 213
18. Acknowledgements 227
19. Timeline 229
20. List of Illustrations and Table 233
21. References 235
22. Index 257