| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Victorian soundscapes/ John M. Picker. |
| Author: |
Picker, John M., |
| Published: |
New York :Oxford University Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
xi, 220 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
The tramp of a fly's footstep -- Hearing things -- An auscultative age -- Nuisance and 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 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 -- Dicken's prospectus for the cheap edition (1847). |
| Subject: |
English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129791An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0195303296 (electronic bk.) |