"Focusing on moments of exchange between acoustic theories and evolving practices in fiction, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, animal studies, and religion, this study ranges from Eliot's Middlemarch to Du Maurier's Trilby to demonstrate how the boundaries of the human were challenged by new sound technologies in the Victorian period"--
"Focusing on moments of exchange between acoustic theories and evolving practices in fiction, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, animal studies, and religion, this study ranges from Eliot's Middlemarch to Du Maurier's Trilby to demonstrate how the boundaries of the human were challenged by new sound technologies in the Victorian period"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Melissa Dickson is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019) and a co-author of Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: whispers in the roar Part I: 1. Accessing the sounds of the body 2. Stethoscopic fantasies 3. Middlemarch and the art of stethoscopic listening Part II: 4. At the limits of audibility 5. Animal music Part III: 6. Sounds of the séance 7. Played upon or player? Musical mediums and creative inspiration 8. Dickens among the spiritualists Part IV: 9. Mesmeric soundscapes 10. 'The Individual Operated Upon': powers of mind and music in George Du Maurier's Trilby.
Introduction: whispers in the roar Part I: 1. Accessing the sounds of the body 2. Stethoscopic fantasies 3. Middlemarch and the art of stethoscopic listening Part II: 4. At the limits of audibility 5. Animal music Part III: 6. Sounds of the séance 7. Played upon or player? Musical mediums and creative inspiration 8. Dickens among the spiritualists Part IV: 9. Mesmeric soundscapes 10. 'The Individual Operated Upon': powers of mind and music in George Du Maurier's Trilby.
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