Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918

Part I. Sound and Time

1. Waiting for the Sound: Noise, Time, and the News
Patricia Pye

Part II. Sound and Social Progress

2. Speakers, Listeners, and the Power of the Platform
Patricia Pye

Part III. Sound and Popular Culture

3. ‘Can’t It Be Stopped?’—London and the Popular Tone
Patricia Pye

Part IV. Sound and Space

4. Silence, the Suburbs, and Life ‘Beyond the City’
Patricia Pye

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature