Anna Snaith

Writing Noise in Interwar Britain

Literature and the Politics of Sound

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel levels brought about during WW1 created not only a concern with the effects of noise on the mind and body, but a reconceptualization of the material effects of sound that influenced writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198951476
• ISBN-10: 0198951477
• Artikelnr.: 74718906

Autorenporträt

Anna Snaith is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at King's College London. She studied at the University of Toronto (BA) and University College London (PhD) and joined the English Department at King's College London in 2003. She was Head of English between 2020 and 2022. She is a former member of the AHRC's Peer Review College and is on the editorial board of the Woolf Studies Annual, Modern Fiction Studies, and Modernism/modernity.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Writing War Noise: Auditory Shock and the Sonic Legacy of the
First World War
* 2: 'No Needless Noise': The Biopolitics of Interwar Noise Abatement
* 3: The Sonification of Domestic Space: Radio and the 'Good Listener'
* 4: Industrial Noise, Factory Fiction, and the Sounds of Protest
* 5: Listening to 'Nature': Rural Noise, Interwar Preservation, and
Forms of Sonic Nationalism
* Coda:: Writing the Blitz