Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold

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Melissa Dickson (University of Queensland)

Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Listening at the Threshold

Melissa Dickson (University of Queensland)

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English

Cambridge University Press
19 December 2024

Prose: non-fiction; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; History of science; Wave mechanics (vibration & acoustics)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

What 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.

By: Melissa Dickson (University of Queensland)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9781009490450
ISBN 10: 1009490451
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 19 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).