Modernist Noisescapes: lecture on sound in Woolf's age.

A research lecture titled 'Modernist Noisescapes: Writing Sound in Interwar Britain', part of the Bloomsbury Research Lecture series. It is given by Anna Snaith, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at King's College London, whose work covers Virginia Woolf, global modernisms and literary sound studies. The talk examines the preoccupation with noise in interwar Britain, which Aldous Huxley called the 'age of noise', including the Anti-Noise League's framing of noise as a public health issue and the sonic legacy of the First World War. It argues that modernist writers stood at the forefront of this sonic-mindedness, taking Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway as a key exhibit of a novel about noise.