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Voice Beyond Language: Rethinking Sound Studies for British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century (2015)

Peter John Weise (Author)
Morton, Timothy (Advisor)

University of California, Davis
Morton, Timothy
Publication date: 2015
Language: English

URI: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1720822328?accountid=12964

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Sound studies argues that hearing is a historical practice embedded in ideology, material conditions, and specific cultures of sound reproduction technologies. Analyzing a diverse array of primary sources, Voice Beyond Language argues that a sound studies approach to British literature of the long eighteenth century (1660-1830) should attend to the violent conditions of hearing. In this period, to hear is often to sense the unstable ground for the construction of a community. An inarticulate voice or a radically vibrating source of sound must be discarded for a stable use of language to appear, enabling a community to function. The reappearance of the problematic sounds threatens a breakdown not only in language but also in the community more generally. Such a community can take the form of the commonwealth, the colony, the public sphere, and the countryside. Each chapter analyzes how British literature represents hearing as the possibility of the construction and destruction of these different types of communities.

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