Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Literature, Listening, Sounding
6. 1 The Sound a Sentence Makes: On Poetry, Judgement, and Hearing 19
7. 2 The Limits of Listening: Riotous Women, Imperial Structures, and Sonic Archives 32
8. 3 PIANO/Forte: Writing Audible Space, Jane Austen, Dorothy Richardson, and Others 45
9. 4 Oralities, Literacies, and the Xenophobic Fallacy 59
10. Part II: Literature, Music, Performance
11. 5 Notes to Literature: Scores as Musical Reproduction in the Literary Text 81
12. 6 Sound Agonistes: Music and the Economy of Sacrifice in Sound Studies 99
13. 7 Shakespeare’s Vibrant Theatres 115
14. 8 ‘Imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds’: Rap, Patter, and Hyper Diction in Musical Theatre 129
15. Part III: Literature, Voice, Acousmatics
16. 9 ‘Let it resound’: ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ as Sonic Witness 145
17. 10 Sound Media, Race, and Voice 154
18. 11 The Acousmatics of Prison Writing 167
19. 12 Aural Anxiety and Rurality in Women’s Second World War Writing 182
20. Part IV: Literature, Media, Coded Sound
21. 13 Sound Technology and US Fiction in the Postwar Era: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Cross-Racial Listening 201
22. 14 Coded Sound: Reading in the Age of Networked Media 216
23. 15 Media Affordances of Literary Audio: Interrelations of Format and Form 228
24. 16 OH-EE-OH-EE-OH-EE-AW-EE-AW!: Sound Descriptors in the Books of Tarzan as Facilitators of Presence 250
25. Part V: Literature, War, Industry
26. 17 An Auditory History of Early Modernity: Listening to Enlightenment and Industry in Britain, 1700–1900 267
27. 18 ‘This is/not was’: The Violence of Circulation and the Sonics of Submerged Language 284
28. 19 Shriek and Hum: Industrial Noise and Productivity 302
29. 20 A Critical Poetics of Warfare 316
30. 21 The Great War: Sonic Fragments in Literature and Sound Studies 336
31. Part VI: Literature, Sonic Epistemology, Language
32. 22 Sonic Epistemologies 351
33. 23 The Cultural Poetics of a Buoyancy Sound from Amazonian Ecuador 366
34. 24 Havoc Ornithologies 382
35. Notes on Contributors 406
36. Index 411