Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-26130-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

The relationship between critical disability studies and the hearing sciences is a dynamic one, and it’s changing still, both as clinicians come to terms with the evolving health of deaf and hearing communities and as the ‘social’ and ‘medical’ understandings of disability continue to gain traction among different groups. What might a ‘cultural’ approach to these overlapping areas of study involve? And what could narrative prose in particular have to tell us that other sources haven’t sensed?

At a time when visual media otherwise seem to have captured the imagination, Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences makes the case for a wide range of literature. In doing so – through serials, short stories, circadian fiction, narrative history, morality tales, whodunits, Bildungsromane, life-writing, the Great American Novel – the book reveals the diverse ways in which writers have plotted and voiced experiences of hearing, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Anatomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Physiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors



Acknowledgements



Introduction: Placing Quietness

Edward Allen



1. Stethoscape: Auscultation in British Fiction

Justin Tackett



2. ‘Redemption From Probable Destruction’: Deafness, Isolation, and Identity in the

Autobiography of Harriet Martineau

Clare Walker Gore



3. Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and the Biopolitics of Interwar Noise Abatement

Anna Snaith



Earpiece 1: ‘Feel dumb. Don’t cry’: Inside a Soundproof Gray Room

Jaipreet Virdi



4. Automatic Voices: Modernism, Telephony, and Delusion

Andrew Gaedtke



5. ‘The Zoom of a Hornet’: Virginia Woolf, Aural Biopolitics, and the Phenomenology of

an Air Raid

Beryl Pong



6. Sleuthing Deafness in Detective Fiction

Edward Allen



Earpiece 2: Learning to be Hearing

Ben Holmes



7. The Jabber of Money: Tinnitus as Metaphor and Martin Amis’s Critique of Neoliberalism

A. Elisabeth Reichel



8. Sound Minds: Schizophonia and Schizophrenia in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

William Allen



9. Teju Cole’s ‘Art of Listening’

Rachel Farebrother



Earpiece 3: ‘Really a part of me’: Dementia Conversations

Catherine Charlwood



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Allen is Associate Professor in English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ’s College.