{"product_id":"acoustics-in-nineteenth-century-literature-and-science-listening-at-the-threshold-hardback-9781009490450","title":"Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science; Listening at the Threshold (Hardback) 9781009490450","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAcoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eListening at the Threshold\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA cross-disciplinary study into how new sound technologies transformed Victorian ideas of the relationship between body and environment.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMelissa Dickson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009490450, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e314 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat 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 Laënnec'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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: whispers in the roar\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. Accessing the sounds of the body\u003cbr\u003e 2. Stethoscopic fantasies\u003cbr\u003e 3. Middlemarch and the art of stethoscopic listening\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 4. At the limits of audibility\u003cbr\u003e 5. Animal music\u003cbr\u003e Part III: 6. Sounds of the séance\u003cbr\u003e 7. Played upon or player? Musical mediums and creative inspiration\u003cbr\u003e 8. Dickens among the spiritualists\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: 9. Mesmeric soundscapes\u003cbr\u003e 10. 'The Individual Operated Upon': powers of mind and music in George Du Maurier's Trilby.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52472146919704,"sku":"9781009490450","price":68.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009490450i.jpg?v=1785718852","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/acoustics-in-nineteenth-century-literature-and-science-listening-at-the-threshold-hardback-9781009490450","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}