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TY - CHAP
T1 - “With ears alive to every sound”
T2 - Thomas Hardy’s Desperate Remedies and the (Im)materiality of Listening
AU - Spence, Rebecca
PY - 2019/12/11
Y1 - 2019/12/11
N2 - This chapter considers listening as an organising principle in Desperate Remedies (1871), Thomas Hardy’s first published novel. It considers how Hardy’s attention to sound oscillates conceptually and aesthetically between opposing schools of thought that governed nineteenth-century thinking about aurality. I situate Hardy’s articulation of listening within the wider cultural debates that were taking place during the mid-nineteenth century, wherein a scientific-materialist conception of aural perception—spearheaded by Hermann von Helmholtz and championed by John Tyndall amongst others—was formed alongside a dominant culture of Romantic idealism. In turn, the chapter argues that pivotal sound “events” that take place throughout the novel pre-empt recent new materialist thinking about the affective qualities of sound and listening.
AB - This chapter considers listening as an organising principle in Desperate Remedies (1871), Thomas Hardy’s first published novel. It considers how Hardy’s attention to sound oscillates conceptually and aesthetically between opposing schools of thought that governed nineteenth-century thinking about aurality. I situate Hardy’s articulation of listening within the wider cultural debates that were taking place during the mid-nineteenth century, wherein a scientific-materialist conception of aural perception—spearheaded by Hermann von Helmholtz and championed by John Tyndall amongst others—was formed alongside a dominant culture of Romantic idealism. In turn, the chapter argues that pivotal sound “events” that take place throughout the novel pre-empt recent new materialist thinking about the affective qualities of sound and listening.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-29817-3_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-29817-3_9
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030298166
SP - 153
EP - 168
BT - Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930
A2 - Carruthers, Jo
A2 - Dakkak, Nour
A2 - Spence, Rebecca
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham
ER -