附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.
The tramp of a fly's footstep -- Hearing things -- An auscultative age -- Nuisance and resonance -- 1. "What the waves were always saying": voices volumes / Dombey and son -- Babbage and Dickens: a library of air -- "Away, with a shriek, and a roar, and a rattle" -- Forever and forever through space -- 2. The soundproof study: Victorian professional identity and urban noise -- Scatterbrain London -- "Blackguard savoyards and herds of German swine" -- Writers' block -- Embodying noise: The leech case -- "Great facts" -- 3. George Eliot's ear: new acoustics in Daniel Deronda and beyond -- On the other side of silence -- Helmholtz and Eliot: sympathetic vibration -- "On the verge of a great discovery": talking cures -- 4. The recorded voice from Victorian aura to modernist echo -- Tennyson's talking machine -- "Send me Mr. Gladstone's voice" -- Sinful speech -- Sound bites -- Coda: the victor dog -- Dicken's prospectus for the cheap edition (1847).
摘要: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. John Picker draws upon literary and scientific works to recapture the Victorian sense of aural discovery.
