Table of Contents

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Modernity as Crisis: Noise and "Nerves"2. Re-Enchanting Modernity: Techniques of Magical Sound3. Creating the Sonically Rational: Modern Interventions in Everyday Aurality4. National Acoustics: Total Listening in the Second World WarConclusionNotesIndex

About the Author

James G. Mansell is an assistant professor of cultural studies at the University of Nottingham

Reviews

"In this intriguing study, James Mansell engages with interactions between noise, modernity, and the construction of the self in interwar Britain. . . . It is an exemplary piece of work." --Technology and Culture
"James Mansell's remarkably clear, wonderfully detailed, even occasionally droll examination of the sensing self in industrial modernity makes a substantial, important contribution to historical sound studies and British studies."--John M. Picker, author of Victorian Soundscapes
"In sum, Mansell's work successfully unlocks the sensory world of the past and demonstrates how one might decode the meanings of sound for those who experienced it."--Fides et Historia