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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents1. 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.
