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Author:   Edward Allen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032799476

ISBN 10:   1032799471
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

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

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

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