Victorian soundscapes

Chronicling the shift from Romantic to modern configurations of sound and voice, Victorian Soundscapes attends to the gothic intersections of nineteenth-century literature, technology, psychology, and acoustics. This book recaptures the sense of aural discovery that Victorian philosophy, physiologists, and inventors shared with the period's novelists and poets.

Introduction,. Part 1: The Tramp of a Fly.s Footstep,. Part 2: An Auscultative Age. Part 3: Urban Nuisance and .Sinister Resonance", 1 "What the Waves Were Always Saying": Voices, Volumes,, Dombey and Son,. Part 1: Babbage and Dickens. A Library of Air,. Part 2: .Away, with a Shriek, and a Roar, and a Rattle",. Part 3: Forever and Forever through Space. 2 The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professionals and Urban, Noise,. Part 1: Scatterbrain London. Part 2: .Blackguard Savoyards and Herds of German Swine",. Part 3: Writer.s Block,. Part 4: Embodying Noise. The Leech Case,. Part 5: .Great Facts", 3 George Eliot's Ear: New Accoustics in Daniel Deronda, and Beyond,. Part 1: Hello. Part 2: Helmholtz and Eliot. Sympathetic Vibration,. Part 3: .On the Verge of a Great Discovery": Talking Cures, 4 The Recorded Voice from Victorian Aura to Modernist Echo,. Part 1: Tennyson.s Talking Machine,. Part 2: .Send Me Mr. Gladstone's Voice",. Part 3: Sinful Speech. Part 4: Sound Bites. Part 5: Victor Dogs. Appendix - Dickens' Prospectus for the Cheap Edition (1847), Notes

Scholars and students of Victorian literature.