Sound, space and civility in the British world, 1700-1850 / edited by Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison and Karen Crawley.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | British 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018038803 |
| ISBN | 9781472466594 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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