Victorian Soundscapes

Name: Victorian Soundscapes
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ISBN: 9780195151916

ISBN-10: 0195151917

ISBN-13: 9780195151916

Edition: 2003

Authors: John M. Picker

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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.

Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Illustrations


Victorian Soundscapes


Introduction The Tramp of a Fly's Footstep



Voices, Volumes, Dombey and Son



Victorian Professional Identity and Urban Noise



New Acoustics in Danielderonda and Beyond



The Recorded Voice from Victorian Aura to Modernist Echo


Appendix: Dickens's Prospectus for the Cheap Edition (1847)


Notes


Bibliography


Index