Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Listening at the Threshold

Dickson, Melissa

Cambridge University Press

12/2024

283

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9781009490450

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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 seance; 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.