At a time when visual media otherwise seem to have captured the imagination, Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences makes the case for a wide range of literature. In doing so, the book reveals the diverse ways in which writers have plotted and voiced experiences of hearing, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Placing QuietnessEdward Allen1. Stethoscape: Auscultation in British FictionJustin Tackett 2. ‘Redemption From Probable Destruction’: Deafness, Isolation, and Identity in theAutobiography of Harriet MartineauClare Walker Gore 3. Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and the Biopolitics of Interwar Noise AbatementAnna Snaith Earpiece 1: ‘Feel dumb. Don’t cry’: Inside a Soundproof Gray RoomJaipreet Virdi4. Automatic Voices: Modernism, Telephony, and DelusionAndrew Gaedtke 5. ‘The Zoom of a Hornet’: Virginia Woolf, Aural Biopolitics, and the Phenomenology ofan Air RaidBeryl Pong6. Sleuthing Deafness in Detective FictionEdward Allen Earpiece 2: Learning to be HearingBen Holmes7. The Jabber of Money: Tinnitus as Metaphor and Martin Amis’s Critique of NeoliberalismA. Elisabeth Reichel 8. Sound Minds: Schizophonia and Schizophrenia in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite JestWilliam Allen9. Teju Cole’s ‘Art of Listening’Rachel Farebrother Earpiece 3: ‘Really a part of me’: Dementia ConversationsCatherine CharlwoodIndex