ISBN:
9781317052517
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
Series Statement:
British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Buchan, Bruce Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850
DDC:
395.094109033
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: listening to civility -- PART I: Sound, conversation and civility -- 1 John Locke on sound and conversation -- 2 Awkward silences -- PART II: Sonic spaces of civility and incivility -- 3 '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 -- 4 The buzz of business: soundscapes of urbanisation in eighteenth-century London -- 5 Civil noise and its discontents -- PART III: Sound, noise and the incivility of the crowd -- 6 The sound of the spirit: auditory enthusiasm and the attack on Methodism in the eighteenth century -- 7 Hissing the king: the politics of vocal expression in 1790s Britain -- 8 Laughed out of court: counter-theatre and participatory justice in the trials of William Hone -- 9 Rioting and writing voice in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge -- PART IV: Civil and uncivil sounds of empire -- 10 The civil noise of empire -- 11 The sounds of incivility: insults and abuse in early Sydney -- Afterword: useful echoes -- Index
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