Sounding Modernism

Julian Murphet is Jury Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. He is the author, previously, of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Faulkner’s Media Romance (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Todd Solondz (Northern Illinois University Press, 2019), and of the forthcoming Modern Character: 1888–1905 (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Twentieth-Century Prison Writing: A Literary Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Helen Groth is Professor of English in the School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (Oxford University Press, 2004), Moving Images. Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and co-author of Dreams and Modernity. A Cultural History (Routledge, 2013). She is the co-editor of a number of books and special journal issues, most recently Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Writing the Global Riot (Oxford University Press, 2023). Penelope Hone recently completed her PhD in English at UNSW Australia. Her research concentrates on the novel in the nineteenth century, with a particular interest in changing conceptions of the literary voice, noise and new media. She has previously published on George Eliot.

[A] groundbreaking collection of essays [...] Sounding Modernism will definitely intrigue Joyce scholars: first, because of the volume's innovative readings of Joyce's work, and second, because of the contributors' methods to analyze a wide range of literary texts and films can serve as models for further investigation into questions relating to rhythm and sound in Joyce's writings.

• Introduction: Sounding Modernism 1890–1950Writing Modern SoundsOn Not Listening To Modernism, Julian MurphetAdvocating Auricularisation: Virginia Woolf’s ‘In The Orchard’, Tom VandeveldeMediated VoicesBottled Bands: Automatic Music and American Media Publics, Lisa GitelmanHow to Listen to Joyce: Gramophones, Voice and the Limits of Mediation, Helen GrothSounding Region, Writing Accent: A. G. Street and the BBC, Debra Rae CohenPartial to Opera: Sounding Willa Cather’s Empty Rooms, John PlotzElliptical Sound: Audibility and the Space of Reading, Julie Beth NapolinDifficult VoicesHarsh Sounds: George Gissing’s Penetrating Literary Voice, Penelope HoneBody and Soul: Modernism, Metaphysics, Rhyme, Sean PryorListening to the Late Cantos, Kristin GroganModern Rhythm: Writing, Sound, CinemaThe Rhythms of Character in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Miss Brill’, Helen RydstrandThe Rhythm of the Rails: Sound and Locomotion, Laura MarcusTwo-step, Nerve-tap, Tanglefoot: Tapdance Typologies in Cinema, Steven ConnorBibliography