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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465642203321

Autore

Picker John M

Titolo

Victorian Soundscapes [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2003

ISBN

9786610482412

0-19-530329-6

1-280-48241-9

0-19-515191-7

0-19-803466-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/356

Soggetti

English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Sound in literature

Sounds in literature

Speech in literature

Voice in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Introduction:The Tramp of a Fly's Footstep; Hearing Things; An Auscultative Age; Nuisance and Resonance; 1 "What the Waves Were Always Saying":Voices, Volumes; Babbage and Dickens: A Library of Air; "Away, with a Shriek, and a Roar, and a Rattle"; Forever and Forever through Space; 2 The Soundproof Study:Victorian Professional Identity and Urban Noise; Scatterbrain London; "Blackguard Savoyards and Herds of German Swine"; Writers' Block; Embodying Noise:The Leech Case; "Great Facts"; 3 George Eliot's Ear: New Acoustics in Daniel Deronda and Beyond

On the Other Side of Silence Helmholtz and Eliot: Sympathetic Vibration; "On the Verge of a Great Discovery":Talking Cures; 4 The Recorded Voice from Victorian Aura to Modernist Echo; Tennyson's



Talking Machine; "Send Me Mr. Gladstone's Voice"; Sinful Speech; Sound Bites; Coda:The Victor Dog; Appendix: Dickens's Prospectus for the Cheap Edition (1847); Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Far from the hushed restraint we associate with the Victorians their world pulsated with sound. This book shows how, in more ways than one, Victorians were hearing things. John Picker draws upon literary and scientific works to recapture the Victorian sense of aural discovery.