UID:
almahu_9949384146002882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 254 pages)
ISBN:
9781315609942
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1315609940
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131705251X
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9781317052500
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1317052501
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9781317052517
Series Statement:
British literature in context in the long eighteenth century
Content:
In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring how censured behaviours and recommended practices resonated beyond the written word. As the contributors show, understanding changing perceptions and valuations of noise and sound allows us to chart how civility was understood in the context of significant political, social and cultural change, including the development of urban life, the extension of empire and the consolidation of legal procedure. Divided into three parts, Sound, Space and Civility in the British World demonstrates how both noise and sound could be recognized by eighteenth-century Britons as expressions of civility. The essays also explore the audible implications of uncivil conduct to complicate our understanding of the sonic range of politeness. The uses of sound and noise to interrogate British colonial anxieties about the distinction between civility and incivility are also investigated. Taken together, the essays identify the emergence of civility as a development that radically altered sonic attitudes and experiences, producing new notions of what counted as desirable or undesirable sound.
Note:
Introduction: listening to civility / Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison and Karen Crawley -- Sound, conversation and civility. John Locke on sound and conversation / Richard Yeo -- Awkward silences / John Barrell -- Sonic spaces of civility and incivility. "The bell, like a speedy messenger, runs from house to house, and ear to ear": the auditory markers of gender, politics and identity in England, 1500-1700 / Dolly Mackinnon -- The buzz of business: soundscapes of urbanisation in eighteenth-century London / Markman Ellis -- Civil noise and its discontents / David Ellison -- Sound, noise and the incivility of the crowd. The sound of the spirit: auditory enthusiasm and the attack on Methodism in the eighteenth century / Peter Denney -- Hissing the king: the politics of vocal expression in 1790s Britain / Gillian Russell -- Laughed out of court: counter-theatre and participatory justice in the trials of Wlliam Hone / Karen Crawley -- Rioting and writing voice in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge / Helen Groth -- Civil and uncivil sounds of empire. The civil noise of empire / Bruce Buchan -- The sounds of incivility: insults and abuse in early Sydney / Penny Russell -- Afterword: useful echoes / Mark M. Smith.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Sound, space and civility in the British world, 1700-1850. London ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781472466594
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315609942
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315609942
