EAN: 9781137540164

SOUND AND MODERNITY IN THE LITERATURE OF LONDON...

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.

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