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Victorian soundscapes / John M. Picker.
LIBRA PR468.S68 P53 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Picker, John M., 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Sound in literature.
- Sound--Recording and reproducing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Sound.
- Speech in literature.
- Voice in literature.
- Sound--Recording and reproducing.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195151909
- 0195151917
- OCLC:
- 50725369
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