Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel (eBook)

Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive

Jennifer Linhart Wood (Autor)

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2019 | 1st ed. 2019
XXII, 373 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-12224-9 (ISBN)

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Sounds are a vital dimension of transcultural encounters in the early modern period. Using the concept of the soundwave as a vibratory, uncanny, and transformative force, Jennifer Linhart Wood examines how sounds of foreign otherness are experienced and interpreted in cross-cultural interactions around the globe. Many of these same sounds are staged in the sonic laboratory of the English theater: rattles were shaken at Whitehall Palace and in Brazil; bells jingled in an English masque and in the New World; the Dallam organ resounded at Topkap? Palace in Istanbul and at King's College, Cambridge; and the drum thundered across India and throughout London theaters. This book offers a new way to conceptualize intercultural contact by arguing that sounds of otherness enmesh bodies and objects in assemblages formed by sonic events, calibrating foreign otherness with the familiar self on the same frequency of vibration.

Jennifer Linhart Wood teaches at St. Mary's College of Maryland and works for Shakespeare Quarterly at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
• Reihe/Serie: New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
• Zusatzinfo: XXII, 373 p. 27 illus., 10 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Cultural Exchange • early modern travel narratives • English theater • historical phenomenology • Jingle Bells • Lute • New Materialism • New World • Otherness • Pericles • postcolonial studies • Renaissance theatre • Sensory Studies • sonic theory of Michel Serres • Soundscape • soundwaves • The Tempest • The Uncanny • Thomas Dallam • Travel Literature
• ISBN-10: 3-030-12224-7 / 3030122247
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-12224-9 / 9783030122249