Sound and Literature

Hardback

Main Details

Title Sound and Literature
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Anna Snaith
SeriesCambridge Critical Concepts
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:438
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 160
Category/GenreLiterary theory
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
ISBN/Barcode 9781108479608
ClassificationsDewey:809.933578
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 7 Halftones, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 18 June 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy generated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sound, whether understood as noise, music, rhythm, voice or vibration, has long shaped literary cultures and their scholarship. In original chapters written by leading scholars in the field, this book tunes in to the literary text as a site of vocalisation, rhythmics and dissonance, as well as an archive of soundscapes, modes of listening, and sound technologies. Sound and Literature is unique for the breadth and plurality of its approach, and for its interrogation and methodological mapping of the field of literary sound studies.

Author Biography

Anna Snaith is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at King's College London. Her publications include Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations (2000), and Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945 (2014). She has edited Virginia Woolf's The Years (2012) and A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (2015). She is currently working on a monograph on interwar literary modernism and noise.