Sound and sense in British Romanticism

A radical re-imagining of the relationship between sound and sense took place in Britain in the decades around 1800. This new approach reconfigured sound as central to understandings of space and temporality, from the diurnal rhythms of everyday life in the modern city to the 'deep time' o...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grande, James (Editor), Raz, Carmel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2023
Series:Cambridge studies in romanticism
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / James Grande and Carmel Raz
  • William Hogarth : Looking and Listening for a Painting / Lydia Goehr
  • Collecting Ballads, Historicizing Sounds : Appropriating Scottish National Music in the Eighteenth Century / Maria Semi
  • Realising The Enraged Musician / Oskar Cox Jensen
  • 'A Strange Jingle of Sounds' : Scenes of Aural Recognition in Early Nineteenth-Century English Literature / Josephine McDonagh
  • The Sound of News : Affective Rhythm, Rupture, and Nostalgia / William Tullett
  • The Resounding Fame of Fingal's Cave / Jonathan Hicks
  • Echoing Sounds : What Was Poetry for Gilbert White? / Courtney Weiss Smith
  • Mary Somerville's Sound Accomplishments : Scientific Writing and the Sonorous Sublime / Katherine Fry
  • Organizing Modernity : Henry Liston's Euharmonic Organ and Natural Tuning in Company India / Daniel Walden
  • Stethoscopic Fantasies / Melissa Dickson