{"product_id":"the-age-of-noise-in-britain-9780252040672","title":"The Age of Noise in Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this intriguing study, James Mansell engages with interactions between noise, modernity, and the construction of the self in interwar Britain. . . . It is an exemplary piece of work.\" --\u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"James Mansell's remarkably clear, wonderfully detailed, even occasionally droll examination of the sensing self in industrial modernity makes a substantial, important contribution to historical sound studies and British studies.\"--John M. Picker, author of \u003ci\u003eVictorian Soundscapes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In sum, Mansell's work successfully unlocks the sensory world of the past and demonstrates how one might decode the meanings of sound for those who experienced it.\"--\u003ci\u003eFides et Historia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mansell has given us an exhilarating and highly original way of understanding early twentieth century Britain. He ranges confidently across a dazzlingly wide terrain--attitudes towards neurasthenia, the occult thinking of Theosophists, technocrats designing quieter homes, those aghast at the sonic assaults of the wartime Blitz--and shows how noise was more than a symbol of modern life or the bane of the highly-strung. It was regarded by a whole gamut of experts and pseudo-experts as an irritating, mysterious, troubling force dramatically reshaping the relationship between the individual and society. \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Noise in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to eavesdrop on this loud and disputatious period--indeed, to question our understanding of modernity itself. It is unsettling in the very best of ways.\"\u003cbr\u003e ​--David Hendy, author of \u003ci\u003eNoise: A Human History of Sound and Listening\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400438653271,"sku":"9780252040672","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252040672.jpg?v=1730470684","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-age-of-noise-in-britain-9780252040672","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}