Victorian Soundscapes John M. Picker epub Victorian Soundscapes John M. Picker pdf download Victorian Soundscapes John M. Picker pdf file Victorian Soundscapes John M. Picker audiobook Victorian Soundscapes John M. Picker book review Victorian Soundscapes John M. Picker summary | #2638629 in Books | John M Picker | 2003-09-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x.70 x9.20l,.81 | File type: PDF | 232 pages | Victorian Soundscapes||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A fine piece of scholarship and very readable|By Mark Duckenfield|This book is a fascinating read and is a really innovative coverage of the topic of sound and literature. It provides a linkage between issues of technological change and the development of literature. Picker covers how some major inventions of the 19th century (telegraph, phonograph primarily) as well as the o|||"Picker is suggestive, intelligent and insightful.... There are enough fine chords struck and suggestions made so his own soundscape keeps resonating after the book is closed.... [He] is subtly and ingeniously correct...in his dissection of George Eliot's
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. The representations close listeners left of their soundscapes offered new meanings for silence, music, noise, voice, and echo that constitute an important part of the Victorian legacy to us today. In chronicling the shift from Romantic to modern configurations of sound and voice, Picker draws upon lit...
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