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Victorian soundscapes [[electronic resource] /] / John M. Picker
| Victorian soundscapes [[electronic resource] /] / John M. Picker |
| Autore | Picker John M. <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | xi, 220 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 820.9/356 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Sounds in literature Sound - Recording and reproducing - Great Britain - History - 19th century Speech in literature Sound in literature Voice in literature |
| ISBN |
0198034660
9780198034667 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795715803321 |
Picker John M. <1970->
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian soundscapes / / John M. Picker
| Victorian soundscapes / / John M. Picker |
| Autore | Picker John M. <1970-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | xi, 220 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 820.9/356 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Sound in literature Sound - Recording and reproducing - Great Britain - History - 19th century Speech in literature Voice in literature |
| ISBN |
0198034660
9780198034667 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824422603321 |
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Picker John M. <1970->
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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