TY - BOOK ID - 2911267 TI - Victorian soundscapes PY - 2003 SN - 0195151917 0195151909 9780195151916 9786610482412 0195303296 1280482419 0198034660 0199787948 PB - Oxford New York Tokyo Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Sound in literature. KW - Sound KW - Sounds in literature. KW - Speech in literature. KW - Voice in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Recording and reproducing KW - History KW - 82.091 KW - 82:93 KW - Vergelijkende literatuurstudie KW - Literatuur en geschiedenis KW - 82:93 Literatuur en geschiedenis KW - 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie KW - Sound in literature KW - Speech in literature KW - Voice in literature KW - Acoustics KW - Continuum mechanics KW - Mathematical physics KW - Physics KW - Pneumatics KW - Radiation KW - Wave-motion, Theory of KW - Sounds in literature KW - History and criticism KW - geluid KW - 798.3 KW - 781.5 KW - akoestiek KW - geschiedenis KW - cultuurgeschiedenis KW - literatuur KW - Groot-Britanniƫ KW - film, esthetiek en kritiek KW - muziekwetenschap, psychologie der muziek KW - English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. KW - Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. KW - Groot-Brittanniƫ UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2911267 AB - 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. ER -