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UNINA9910465642203321 |
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Autore |
Picker John M |
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Titolo |
Victorian Soundscapes [[electronic resource]] |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2003 |
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9786610482412 |
0-19-530329-6 |
1-280-48241-9 |
0-19-515191-7 |
0-19-803466-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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