Volume 17, Issue 2 (2024)

Special Issue

Sound of Nature: Soundscapes and Environmental Awareness, 1750-1950

Edited by James Castell, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Anne Hehl, Francesca Mackenney, Martin Willis

Front Matter JLS 17.2 (2024)

James Castell, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Anne Hehl, Francesca Mackenney and Martin Willis, “Introduction: Sound of Nature: Soundscapes and Environmental Awareness, 1750-1950.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 1-16  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.01 Download PDF Video Abstract

James Castell, “Listening with Wordsworth: some versions of sonic sociability.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 17-30  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.02 Download PDF Video Abstract

Francesca Mackenney, “Stranger Notes: John Clare and the Northborough Nightingales.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 31-49  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.03 Download PDF Video Abstract

James Castell and Francesca Mackenney, “Listening with the Romantics.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 50-61  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.04 Download PDF Video Abstract

Martin Willis, “Therapeutic Soundscapes in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 62-77  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.05 Download PDF Video Abstract

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg and Anne Hehl, “Environmental Echoes: Finding Historical Soundscapes of Nature in Textual Sources.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 78-92 DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.06 Download PDF Video Abstract

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, “A Silence Made up of Sounds: Early Twentieth-Century German Soundscapes of Conservation.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 93-110  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.07 Download PDF Video Abstract

David Rothenberg, “Afterword.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 111-114  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.08 Download PDF

Article Reviews

Arthur Charlesworth, Review of Christiane Schwab’s “Sailors, Book Hawkers, and Bricklayer’s Laborers: Social Types and the Production of Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Periodical Literature.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 115-116  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.09 Download PDF

Roger Ebbatson, Review of Tim Fulford’s “Mont Blanc Imagined: Poetry, Science and the Prospect-View in Davy and Coleridge.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 117-118  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.10 Download PDF

Olivia Krauze, Review of Josephine Reece’s “Charlotte Smith’s Intertextual Ecology.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 119-120  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.11 Download PDF

Bharanee Moothoosamy, Review of Victor Monnin’s “Reading Omens in the Escape of Genetically Engineered Dinosaurs, 1970s-1990s.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 121-122  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.12 Download PDF

Martina Saric, Review of Rebecca Spence’s “‘A Sigh of Sympathy’: Thomas Hardy’s Paralinguistic Aesthetics and Evolutionary Sympathy.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 123-124  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.13 Download PDF    

Petros Spanou, Review of Jordan Kistler’s “I Cannot Tell You All the Story: Narrative, Historical Knowledge, and the Museum in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.” JLS 17.2 (2024): 125-126  DOI: 10.12929/jls.17.2.14 Download PDF