Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold by Dickson, Melissa

Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009490450)

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Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold by Dickson, Melissa

Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold

$120.00
Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold by Dickson, Melissa

Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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What did it mean to hear, for the first time, what George Eliot described as 'that roar which lies on the other side of silence'? Rapid developments in nineteenth-century acoustic science and communications technologies opened up new worlds beyond the limits of normal audibility for the Victorian public. Weaving together explorations of scientific developments with imaginative cultural, spiritual, and literary responses, this book sets out to explore the burgeoning field of acoustics in the nineteenth century and the new language, structure, and conceptual models it offered to broker the boundaries of the individual self. Ranging from Eliot's Middlemarch to Du Maurier's Trilby, and from La?nnec's work on the stethoscope to experiments on animal audition, inquiries into the unconscious, and spiritualist investigations of the hidden world of vibrations, it demonstrates the profound challenge to the boundaries of the human that was issued by new sound technologies in the Victorian period.

Author: Melissa Dickson
ISBN-10: 1009490451
ISBN-13: 9781009490450
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2024
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

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