Author Description

Introduction: Talking Books / Matthew Rubery -- The Three-minute Victorian Novel: Remediating Dickens Into Sound / Jason Camlot -- A Library On The Air: Literary Dramatization And Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre / James Jesson -- The Audiographic Impulse: Doing Literature With The Tape Recorder / Jesper Olsson -- Poetry By Phone And Phonograph: Tracing The Influence Of Giorno Poetry Systems / Michael S. Hennessey -- Soundtracking The Novel: Willy Vlautin's Northline As Filmic Audiobook / Justin St. Clair -- Novelist As Sound-thief: The Audiobooks Of John Le Carr / Garrett Stewart -- Hearing Hardy, Talking Tolstoy: The Audiobook Narrator's Voice And Reader Experience / Sara Knox -- Talking Books, Toni Morrison, And The Transformation Of Narrative Authority: Two Frameworks / K. C. Harrisson -- Obama's Voices: Performance And Politics On The Dreams From My Father Audiobook / Jeffrey Severs -- Bedtime Storytelling Revisited: Le Pere Castor And Children's Audiobooks / Brigitte Ouvry-vial -- Learning From Librivox / Michael Hancher -- A Preliminary Phenomenology Of The Audiobook / D. E. Wittkower. Edited By Matthew Rubery. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.