An Auditory History of Early Modernity: Listening to Enlightenment and Industry in Britain, 1700–1900

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Denney, Peter
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Groth, Helen

Julian, Murphet

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2024
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In Britain, the arrival of modernity was frequently associated with sound. A watershed was reached in the nineteenth century, when the noise of industrialisation came to be heard as a defining feature of modern life.1 For some commentators, the unprecedented amplification of sound, generated by the factory, the railway, and other innovations, prompted a celebration of power and progress. Other listeners, however, regarded industrial noise with considerable anxiety as a form of sonic oppression, which silenced human voices and damaged auditory environments.

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The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies

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Denney, P, An Auditory History of Early Modernity: Listening to Enlightenment and Industry in Britain, 1700-1900, The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies, 2024, pp. 267-283

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