Victorian Soundscapes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195151916)

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.

Author: John M. Picker
ISBN-10: 0195151917
ISBN-13: 9780195151916
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2003
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.10w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2004 pg. 1474