Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences

The relationship between critical disability studies and the hearing sciences is a dynamic one, and it's changing still, both as clinicians come to terms with the evolving health of deaf and hearing communities and as the 'social' and 'medical' understandings of disability continue to gain traction among different groups. What might a 'cultural' approach to these overlapping areas of study involve? And what could narrative prose in particular have to tell us that other sources haven't sensed?
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 - through serials, short stories, circadian fiction, narrative history, morality tales, whodunits, Bildungsromane, life-writing, the Great American Novel - the book reveals the diverse ways in which writers have plotted and voiced experiences of hearing, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

About the author

Edward Allen is Associate Professor in English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.

Product details

• Assisted by: Allen Edward (Editor)
• Authors: Edward Allen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 26.12.2025
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781032799476
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279947-6
• Pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Audiology & otology, Audiology and otology, literary modernism, Narrative medicine, critical disability studies;aural biopolitics;narrative medicine;deaf identity;literary modernism;auditory perception research;fiction and hearing science analysis, deaf identity, auditory perception research, fiction and hearing science analysis, aural biopolitics