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Victorian Soundscapes
John M. Picker
出版Oxford University Press, USA, 2003-09-04
主題Art / History / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshMusic / GeneralMusic / Recording & Reproduction
ISBN01951519179780195151916
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=erIjscc98d0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.