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Acoustics in nineteenth-century literature and science : listening at the threshold /

"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...

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Main Author: Dickson, Melissa (Of University of Birmingham) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 151.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Sound in literature.
Sound > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Sound > Recording and reproducing > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Noise > Great Britain > History.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Son > Enregistrement et reproduction > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Bruit > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

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