Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive /

• Main Author: Wood, Jennifer Linhart (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800
• Subjects: World history.; Europe-History-1492-.; Literature, Modern.; Civilization-History.; Theater-History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Cultural History.; Theatre History.

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 aro...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Soundings
• Part I: New World Symphony
• Rattling Soundscapes of Witch Drama and the New World
• Hell's Bells: Delight in Transatlantic Jinglings
• Interlude: Intercultural Remixes. Part II: Songs of the Orient
• 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
• Part III: World Music: East Is West
• "Something Rich and Strange": Global Listening and The Tempest
• Coda: "Songs from the Wood.".