1st Edition
Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences
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
Biography
Edward Allen is Associate Professor in English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ’s College.
