Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54016-4 (ISBN)
The book is structured into familiar modernist themes, revisiting time and space, social progress and popular culture through an exploration of the sound impressions of some key works. Each chapter is contextualized by these themes, revealing how the sound of the news, social protest, music hall and suburbanization impacted on writers’ literary imaginations.
Suitable for students of modernist literature and specialists in sound studies, this book will also appeal to readers with a wider interest in London’s history and popular culture between 1880-1918.
Patricia Pye is Senior Lecturer at Bucks New University, UK.
Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Sound and Time: Waiting for the sound: noise, time, and the news.- 2. Sound and Social Progress: Speakers, listeners, and the power of the platform.- 3. Sound and Popular Culture: 'Can't it be stopped?': London and the popular tone.- 4. Sound and Space: Silence, the suburbs, and life 'beyond the City'.- Conclusion.- Works Cited.-
“The book will be of interest to all those working in the literature and ideological politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. … Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880–1918 is a very successful book, one from which I have learnt a lot, and one which I have thoroughly enjoyed reading.” (Christo Hadjiyiannes, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 62 (3), 2019)“Philosophy and Oscar Wilde provides a fine opportunity to consider the extent to which his work reveals a productive interchange between the two fields. … Philosophy and Oscar Wilde is thought-provoking throughout. … the volume adds detail and depth to an understanding of Wilde’s relationship to philosophy.” (Timothy l. Carnes, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 62 (3), 2019)
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.11.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | XXXI, 179 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Arthur Conan Doyle • auditory • Early Edwardian • Ford Madox Ford • George Gissing • H. G. Wells • Joseph Conrad • Late Victorian • Music Hall • News • social Progress • Suburbanization |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-54016-8 / 1137540168 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-54016-4 / 9781137540164 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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