Victorian Soundscapes [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Picker John M
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| Titolo: |
Victorian Soundscapes [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/356 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Victorian Soundscapes |
| ISBN: | 9786610482412 |
| 0-19-530329-6 | |
| 1-280-48241-9 | |
| 0-19-515191-7 | |
| 0-19-803466-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465642203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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