Victorian Soundscapes
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 October 2003
- ISBN 9780195151916
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 155x238x18 mm
- Weight 367 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Picker is suggestive, intelligent and insightful.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Tramp of a Fly's Footstep
An Auscultative Age
Urban Nuisance and "Sinister Resonance"
1 "What the Waves Were Always Saying": Voices, Volumes, Dombey and Son
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 Professionals and Urban Noise
Scatterbrain London
"Blackguard Savoyards and Herds of German Swine"
Writer's Block
Embodying Noise: The Leech Case
"Great Facts"
3 George Eliot's Ear: New Accoustics in Daniel Deronda and Beyond
Hello
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
Victor Dogs
Appendix - Dickens' Prospectus for the Cheap Edition (1847)
Notes
Bibliography
