Abstract:This essay examines the widespread phenomenon during the early Republic of "societies of gentlemen" who edited magazines and made editorial decisions based at least in part on how a piece sounded when read aloud to one another. This collective form of editing and supporting a magazine reveals the many ways that orality and sociability were crucial to the publication, consumption, and imaginative work of periodicals in the early American Republic. Beyond the selection process at the level of publication, magazines foregrounded material that represented conversation and sociability on the page. The prevalence of representations of orality within magazines reveals the extent to which editors assumed that their readers would also be reading aloud to one another in social gatherings. Taken together, these practices suggest that magazines' much-discussed nationalistic claims about their public usefulness might invoke community, collaboration, collective literary production, and civic ties as much as they also promoted individual literary talent.

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大声朗读：美国早期共和国杂志的社论与口述

摘要：本文考察了共和国早期“绅士社会”的普遍现象，他们编辑杂志并做出编辑决定，至少部分是基于一篇文章在大声朗读时的声音。这种编辑和支持杂志的集体形式揭示了在美国共和国早期，口述性和社交性对期刊的出版、消费和想象力工作至关重要的许多方式。除了出版层面的选择过程之外，杂志还突出了页面上代表对话和社交能力的材料。杂志中口头表达的盛行揭示了编辑认为他们的读者也会在社交聚会中大声朗读的程度。综合起来，