03547nam 2200565 a 450 991082442260332120240529000249.001980346609780198034667(MiAaPQ)EBC7034804(CKB)24235063100041(MiAaPQ)EBC3051854(Au-PeEL)EBL3051854(CaPaEBR)ebr10085221(CaONFJC)MIL48241(OCoLC)922952482(EXLCZ)992423506310004120020917d2003 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVictorian soundscapes /John M. Picker1st ed.New York Oxford University Pressc2003xi, 220 p. illIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.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. The representations close listeners left of their soundscapes offered new meanings for silence, music, noise, voice, andecho that constitute an important part of the Victorian legacy to us today. In chronicling the shift from Romantic to modern configurations of sound and voice, Picker draws upon literary and scientific works to recapture the sense of aural discovery figures such as Babbage, Helmholtz, Freud, Bell,and Edison shared with the likes of Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, Stoker, and Conrad.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSound in literatureSoundRecording and reproducingGreat BritainHistory19th centurySpeech in literatureSound in literatureVoice in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Sound in literature.SoundRecording and reproducingHistorySpeech in literature.Sound in literature.Voice in literature.820.9/356Picker John M.1970-1645602MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910824422603321Victorian soundscapes3992170UNINA