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Sounding otherness in early modern drama and travel : uncanny vibrations in the English archive / Jennifer Linhart Wood.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR651 .W66 2019
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Jennifer Linhart, author.
- Series:
- New transculturalisms, 1400-1800
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Cultural relations in literature.
- Sound in literature.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 373 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- Summary:
- "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 Topkapi 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"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Rattling Soundscapes of Witch Drama and the New World
- Hell's Bells: Delight in Transatlantic Jinglings
- Interlude: Intercultural Remixes
- An Organ's Metamorphosis: Thomas Dallam's Sonic Transformations in the Ottoman Empire
- "Drums Rumble Within": Embodied Experiences of Temples in the East and on the London Stage
- Interlude: A Tale of Two Toms: Dallam and Coryate Speaking in Oriental Tongues
- "Something Rich and Strange": Global Listening and The Tempest.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 3030122239
- 9783030122232
- OCLC:
- 1080428250
- Publisher Number:
- 99987021361
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