Victorian Soundscapes
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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.
Victorian Soundscapes,John M. Picker,Oxford University Press, USA,0195151917,19th century,English literature,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Great Britain,History,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Recording and reproducing,Sound,Sounds in literature,British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900,English,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary studies: 19th century,Literature/English | British Literature | 19th C,Music,Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics),United Kingdom, Great Britain,c 1800 to c 1900
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