Victorian Soundscapes

Zusatztext Picker is suggestive, intelligent and insightful. Informationen zum Autor John M. Picker is Associate Professor of English at Harvard University Klappentext 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, and echo 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. Zusammenfassung Chronicling the shift from Romantic to modern configurations of sound and voice, Victorian Soundscapes attends to the gothic intersections of nineteenth-century literature, technology, psychology, and acoustics. This book recaptures the sense of aural discovery that Victorian philosophers, psychologists, and inventors shared with the period's novelists and poets. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I: The Tramp of a Fly's Footstep II: An Auscultative Age III: Urban Nuisance and "Sinister Resonance" 1 "What the Waves Were Always Saying": Voices, Volumes, Dombey and Son I: Babbage and Dickens: A Library of Air II: "Away, with a Shriek, and a Roar, and a Rattle" III: Forever and Forever through Space 2 The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professionals and Urban Noise I: Scatterbrain London II: "Blackguard Savoyards and Herds of German Swine" III: Writer's Block IV: Embodying Noise: The Leech Case V: "Great Facts" 3 George Eliot's Ear: New Accoustics in Daniel Deronda and Beyond I: Hello II: Helmholtz and Eliot: Sympathetic Vibration III: "On the Verge of a Great Discovery": Talking Cures 4 The Recorded Voice from Victorian Aura to Modernist Echo I: Tennyson's Talking Machine II: "Send Me Mr. Gladstone's Voice" III: Sinful Speech IV: Sound Bites V: Victor Dogs Appendix - Dickens' Prospectus for the Cheap Edition (1847) Notes Bibliography ...

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• Authors: John M. Picker, John M. (Assistant Professor of English Picker, Picker John M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2003
• EAN: 9780195151916
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515191-6
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Music, European History, MUSIC / General, English, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), SCIENCE / Waves & Wave Mechanics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Wave mechanics (vibration & acoustics), Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)