Peter Denney
Biographic Data
| ID | 841911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Denney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Denney |
| SIGNATURE | DENNEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-6058-2663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hearing God and Debating Liberty: Sound and Methodism in England during the Age of the French Revolution
This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement. By analysing loyalist sermons, in particular, the essay shows that the conservative Anglican inte…
Reverberations of Revolution: Sound, Politics and Religious Enthusiasm in the 1790s
This essay examines the significance of sound in religion in the context of the British debate about the French Revolution. It analyses loyalist sermons and pamphlets to show that anxieties about plebeian noise exacerbated concerns about religious enthusiasm and its relationship to political radicalism. Accordingly, the acoustic aspects of worship became an issue in conservative propaganda, especially the writings of Anglican clergymen. By contra…
Spaces of Enlightenment: From Domestic Scenes to Global Visions
Space is not something objective and real, nor is it a substance, nor an accident, nor a relation; it is, rather, subjective and ideal; it issues from the nature of the mind in accordance with a stable law as a scheme, so to speak, for co-ordinating everything which is sensed externally
Politics and Emotions in Romantic Periodicals
Clamoring for Liberty: Alehouse Noise and the Political Shoemaker
Sound played a crucial role in plebeian politics in the eighteenth century, with singing, shouting, clapping, and other kinds of acoustic expression conveying a range of meanings. However, historians have mostly neglected the acoustic dimensions of popular political discourse. A fruitful way of examining this issue is by focusing on the figure of the shoemaker, a character who often appears in popular culture as a noisy, irreverent, and vigorous …
Popular Radicalism, Religious Parody and the Mock Sermon in the 1790s
This article examines the role of religious parody in the popular radical movement in Britain in the 1790s, focusing on a collection of little-known mock sermons and the booksellers who published them. Aimed at a plebeian audience, these mock sermons revived an old tradition of religious satire and drew extensively on the resources of popular culture. They functioned to democratize the meanings of religious rituals, as popular perceptions and pra…
Picturesque Farming: The Sound of 'Happy Britannia' in Colonial Australia
This essay examines the way in which the British landscape tradition influenced perceptions of sound, noise and silence in colonial Australia, focusing on representations of rural soundscape in art and literature. It argues that poets and artists attempted to recreate an image of Australia as a new 'Happy Britannia', a noisy society engaged in virtuous agricultural labour. But this image was opposed to the prevailing taste for picturesque landsca…
Looking back, groping forward: Rethinking sensory history
Commentators in mid eighteenth-century London might have been surprised to learn that they lived in an age of Enlightenment, in which vision had consolidated its reign over the other senses; for they often wrote about precisely the contrary, about the dangers as well as the delights of an intractably material world that penetrated the body through the skin, tongue, nose and ears as well as through the eyes. Nowhere was this clearer, perhaps, than…
Botanising on the asphalt’: Australian modernity and the street poetics of Kenneth Slessor
The city is a poem', writes Roland Barthes, 'but it is not a classical poem, a poem tidily centred on a subject. It is a poem which unfolds the signifier and it is this unfolding that ultimately the semiology of the city should try to grasp and make sing'.1 Writing at the cusp of the intellectual movement that became known as post-structuralism, Barthes anticipated subsequent developments taking place in the interdisciplinary field of urban studi…
Looking back, groping forward: Rethinking sensory history
Commentators in mid eighteenth-century London might have been surprised to learn that they lived in an age of Enlightenment, in which vision had consolidated its reign over the other senses; for they often wrote about precisely the contrary, about the dangers as well as the delights of an intractably material world that penetrated the body through the skin, tongue, nose and ears as well as through the eyes. Nowhere was this clearer, perhaps, than…
Botanising on the asphalt’: Australian modernity and the street poetics of Kenneth Slessor
The city is a poem', writes Roland Barthes, 'but it is not a classical poem, a poem tidily centred on a subject. It is a poem which unfolds the signifier and it is this unfolding that ultimately the semiology of the city should try to grasp and make sing'.1 Writing at the cusp of the intellectual movement that became known as post-structuralism, Barthes anticipated subsequent developments taking place in the interdisciplinary field of urban studi…
Looking back, groping forward: Rethinking sensory history
Commentators in mid eighteenth-century London might have been surprised to learn that they lived in an age of Enlightenment, in which vision had consolidated its reign over the other senses; for they often wrote about precisely the contrary, about the dangers as well as the delights of an intractably material world that penetrated the body through the skin, tongue, nose and ears as well as through the eyes. Nowhere was this clearer, perhaps, than…
Popular Radicalism, Religious Parody and the Mock Sermon in the 1790s
This article examines the role of religious parody in the popular radical movement in Britain in the 1790s, focusing on a collection of little-known mock sermons and the booksellers who published them. Aimed at a plebeian audience, these mock sermons revived an old tradition of religious satire and drew extensively on the resources of popular culture. They functioned to democratize the meanings of religious rituals, as popular perceptions and pra…
Picturesque Farming: The Sound of 'Happy Britannia' in Colonial Australia
This essay examines the way in which the British landscape tradition influenced perceptions of sound, noise and silence in colonial Australia, focusing on representations of rural soundscape in art and literature. It argues that poets and artists attempted to recreate an image of Australia as a new 'Happy Britannia', a noisy society engaged in virtuous agricultural labour. But this image was opposed to the prevailing taste for picturesque landsca…
Clamoring for Liberty: Alehouse Noise and the Political Shoemaker
Sound played a crucial role in plebeian politics in the eighteenth century, with singing, shouting, clapping, and other kinds of acoustic expression conveying a range of meanings. However, historians have mostly neglected the acoustic dimensions of popular political discourse. A fruitful way of examining this issue is by focusing on the figure of the shoemaker, a character who often appears in popular culture as a noisy, irreverent, and vigorous …
Politics and Emotions in Romantic Periodicals
Spaces of Enlightenment: From Domestic Scenes to Global Visions
Space is not something objective and real, nor is it a substance, nor an accident, nor a relation; it is, rather, subjective and ideal; it issues from the nature of the mind in accordance with a stable law as a scheme, so to speak, for co-ordinating everything which is sensed externally
Reverberations of Revolution: Sound, Politics and Religious Enthusiasm in the 1790s
This essay examines the significance of sound in religion in the context of the British debate about the French Revolution. It analyses loyalist sermons and pamphlets to show that anxieties about plebeian noise exacerbated concerns about religious enthusiasm and its relationship to political radicalism. Accordingly, the acoustic aspects of worship became an issue in conservative propaganda, especially the writings of Anglican clergymen. By contra…
Hearing God and Debating Liberty: Sound and Methodism in England during the Age of the French Revolution
This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement. By analysing loyalist sermons, in particular, the essay shows that the conservative Anglican inte…
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