The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies

[headline]This field-defining collection maps key intersections between sound studies and literary studies Collections on sound studies have seldom explored the vexed relationship between literature - a medium largely defined by its silence - and the dynamics and technologies of sound. This Companion is designed to help sound studies scholars grapple with the auditory capacities of text and encourage literary scholars to take full cognisance of the rich soundscapes mapped, or created, by texts read quietly. The essays assembled here consider a broad range of sound studies topics, including music in writing; the inscription of listening; worlding through sound; military and industrial noise; the gender of sound; racialised soundscapes; theatrical sounds; literature and sound media; and sonic epistemology. Helen Groth and Julian Murphet present a comprehensive set of new research on the relationship between sound and writing over time from a range of eminent, established and emerging sound studies scholars. [bios]Helen Groth is Professor of English in the School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (2004) and Moving Images: Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices (2013), co-author of Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History (2013) and co-editor of the forthcoming collection Writing the Global Riot: Literature in a Time of Crisis (2023). Julian Murphet is Jury Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of the forthcoming Modern Character: 1888-1905 (2023) and Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).