Sound and Sense in British Romanticism

Herausgeber: Grande, James; Raz, Carmel

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Produktbeschreibung

This unparalleled exploration reveals how understandings of sound shifted and multiplied in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on literary studies, musicology and history, and interrogating how writers of this period thought with and through sound, this book opens up a new chapter in the history of the senses.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781009277846
• ISBN-10: 1009277847
• Artikelnr.: 68136001

Inhaltsangabe

1. William Hogarth: looking and listening for a painting Lydia Goehr; 2.
Collecting ballads, historicizing sounds: appropriating Scottish national
music in the eighteenth century Maria Semi; 3. Realising The Enraged
Musician Oskar Cox Jensen; 4. 'A strange jingle of sounds': scenes of aural
recognition in early nineteenth-century English literature Josephine
McDonagh; 5. The sound of news: affective rhythm, rupture, and nostalgia
William Tullett; 6. The resounding fame of Fingal's Cave Jonathan Hicks; 7.
Echoing sounds: what was poetry for Gilbert White? Courtney Weiss Smith; 8.
Mary Somerville's sound accomplishments: scientific writing and the
sonorous sublime Katherine Fry; 9. Organizing modernity: Henry Liston's
euharmonic organ and natural tuning in Company India Daniel Walden; 10.
Stethoscopic fantasies Melissa Dickson.