Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Sound and Time: Waiting for the sound: noise, time, and the news.- 2. Sound and Social Progress: Speakers, listeners, and the power of the platform.- 3. Sound and Popular Culture: 'Can't it be stopped?': London and the popular tone.- 4. Sound and Space: Silence, the suburbs, and life 'beyond the City'.- Conclusion.- Works Cited.-

Patricia Pye is Senior Lecturer at Bucks New University, UK.

"The book will be of interest to all those working in the literature and ideological politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ... Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918 is a very successful book, one from which I have learnt a lot, and one which I have thoroughly enjoyed reading." (Christo Hadjiyiannes, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 62 (3), 2019)

"Philosophy and Oscar Wilde provides a fine opportunity to consider the extent to which his work reveals a productive interchange between the two fields. ... Philosophy and Oscar Wilde is thought-provoking throughout. ... the volume adds detail and depth to an understanding of Wilde's relationship to philosophy." (Timothy l. Carnes, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 62 (3), 2019)