Sounding Modernism

This individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes.

1. Introduction: Sounding Modernism 1890-1950; Part I: Writing Modern Sounds; 2. On Not Listening To Modernism, Julian Murphet; 3. Advocating Auricularisation: Virginia Woolf's 'In The Orchard', Tom Vandevelde; Part II: Mediated Voices; 4. Bottled Bands: Automatic Music and American Media Publics, Lisa Gitelman; 5. How to Listen to Joyce: Gramophones, Voice and the Limits of Mediation, Helen Groth; 6. Sounding Region, Writing Accent: A. G. Street and the BBC, Debra Rae Cohen; 7. Partial to Opera: Sounding Willa Cather's Empty Rooms, John Plotz; 8. Elliptical Sound: Audibility and the Space of Reading, Julie Beth Napolin; Part III: Difficult Voices; 9. Harsh Sounds: George Gissing's Penetrating Literary Voice, Penelope Hone; 10. Body and Soul: Modernism, Metaphysics, Rhyme, Sean Pryor; 11. Listening to the Late Cantos, Kristin Grogan; Part IV: Modern Rhythm: Writing, Sound, Cinema; 12. The Rhythms of Character in Katherine Mansfield's 'Miss Brill', Helen Rydstrand; 13. The Rhythm of the Rails: Sound and Locomotion, Laura Marcus; 14. Two-step, Nerve-tap, Tanglefoot: Tapdance Typologies in Cinema, Steven Connor; Bibliography.

Julian Murphet is Scientia Professor in English and Film Studies at UNSW Australia. He is the author of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (2001), Multimedia Modernism (2009), and the forthcoming Faulkner's Media Romance. He has co-edited a number of collections, including Rancière and Literature (2016), Faulkner in the Media Ecology (2015), and Modernism and Masculinity (2014), and co-edits the journal Affirmations: of the modern.
Helen Groth is Professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW Australia. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (2003), Moving Images: Nineteenth Century Reading and Screen Practices (2013), (with Natalya Lusty) Dreams and Modernity. A Cultural History (2013), Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (2003) and the co-editor of Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind (2014).
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.