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, the book reveals the diverse ways in which writers have plotted and voiced experiences of hearing, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

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

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

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