Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918 1st Edition Patricia Pye (Auth.)

This completed downloadable of Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918 1st Edition Patricia Pye (Auth.)

Instant downloaded Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918 1st Edition Patricia Pye (Auth.) pdf docx epub after payment.

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1137540168
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1137540164
• Author: Patricia Pye

This book explores the literary representation of late Victorian and early Edwardian London from an auditory perspective, arguing that readers should ‘listen’ to impressions of the city, as described by writers such as Conrad, Doyle, Ford and Gissing. It was in this period that London began to ‘sound modern’ and, through a closer hearing of its literature, writers’ wider responses to modernity are revealed.
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.

Table of contents:

Part I Sound and Time

Chapter 1 Waiting for the Sound: Noise, Time, and the News

Individual and Communal Experience of Time

Hearing the News in Conrad’s The Secret Agent

Signalling the Moment in Ford’s A Man Could Stand up

Part II Sound and Social Progress

Chapter 2 Speakers, Listeners, and the Power of the Platform

Some Platform Performers in Besant, James, Conrad, and Harkness

Speakers and the Sound of Social Class

Listeners and the ‘Wild Beast Roar’ of the Crowd

Part III Sound and Popular Culture

Chapter 3 ‘Can’t It Be Stopped?’—London and the Popular Tone

The Clang of Triviality: Perceptions of the Popular

Music of the Streets and Suburbs

Music Hall and the Comic Tone

Part IV Sound and Space

Chapter 4 Silence, the Suburbs, and Life‘Beyond the City’

Jefferies and the End of London

Chesterton and the ‘Horrible Silence of Modernity’

Travelling Beyond the City

People also search:

are sound and noise the same

are sound waves made of atoms

are sound waves made of particles

are sound waves matter

are sound waves made of matter