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  • Chapter 4 - ‘A Strange Jingle of Sounds’

  • Edited by James Grande, King's College London, Carmel Raz, Max-Planck-Institut für Empirische Ästhetik
  • Book:
    Sound and Sense in British Romanticism
    Published online:
    24 August 2023
    Print publication:
    07 September 2023, pp 90-114
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    This chapter identifies scenes of aural recognition in a number of nineteenth century texts from the 1810s and 1820s: recurrent scenes which involve a character, a narrator, or an autobiographical witness hearing something (a song, a melody, a sequence of words) which they believe they have heard at least once before. Although seemingly unimportant scenes, they are often ones which are pivotal to the plot, the development of character, or the instigation of a regime of feeling. Analysing examples of this scene in Scott’s Guy Mannering, a stage adaptation by Daniel Terry, short stories by John Galt, and a travel narrative by Reginald Heber, the chapter tracks the various ways in which hearing accrues significance as a mobile sense in the context of a newly mobile world of extreme travel and colonization.