London Voices, 18201840 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MUS000000 Music / General
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

Scotland sent him forth a Herculean man; our mad Babylon wore him and wasted him, with all her engines; and it took her twelve years: He sleeps with his fathers, in that loved birth-land: Babylon with its deafening inanity rages on.70

More equivocally, Jane Welsh Carlyle surmised, “There would have been no tongues, had Irving married me.”71

How should the modern historian understand this strange episode? Leigh Eric Schmidt includes it in Hearing Things, his account of the audible visions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century enthusiasts, which challenge the ocularcentric claims of the Enlightenment and the privileged place of visuality and the gaze within narratives of modernity. For Schmidt, focused as he is on the American context, the Irving controversy represents a foundational moment in the emergence of modern Pentecostalism:

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