Sound, space and civility in the British world, 1700-1850 / edited by Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison and Karen Crawley.

SeriesBritish literature in context in the long eighteenth century
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2018038803
ISBN9781472466594 (hardback : alk. paper)

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