'Resounding the Sublime' Book Launch
Published by Penn Press, Miranda Stanyon's new book will be launched by the ERCC on Monday 22 November 2021.
The Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture Research Unit is delighted to host the launch of Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670-1850 by ERCC Associate Dr Miranda Stanyon.
To launch Dr Stanyon’s book, the ERCC warmly welcomes Emma Dillon, Professor of Music, King’s College London, Sarah Hibberd, Stanley Hugh Badock Chair of Music, University of Bristol, and Peter de Bolla, Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics, University of Cambridge.
The launch will take place on Zoom on Monday 22 November 2021 at 7pm AEST. A Zoom link is provided below. All are welcome to join.
About the book: What does the sublime sound like? Harmonious, discordant, noisy, rustling, silent? Resounding the Sublime rereads and resounds this crucial aesthetic category in English and German literatures of the long eighteenth century to locate music and sound at the heart of a central and transformative discourse. For Enlightenment and Romantic era listeners, the musical sublime represented a sonic encounter of the most extreme kind, one that tested what humans were capable of feeling, imagining, thinking, and becoming.
A 20% discount is currently available for those who order the book from University of Pennsylvania Press online. Find out more here.
About Dr Stanyon: Dr Stanyon is a Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. After positions at Cambridge and King’s College London, she returned to Australia in 2020 to take up an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award on Romantic era receptions of Andromache. Her publications include the co-edited collection Music and the Sonorous Sublime in European Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2020) alongside articles in Modern Philology, Huntington Library Quarterly, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, and Journal of the Royal Musical Association.
Zoom link: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/87458222852?pwd=TU9HZ1p6WDhwYWF4dG1mMlhuNHZLUT09 Password: 616425