Melissa Dickson

Gebundenes Buch

Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Beschreibung

"Focusing on moments of exchange between acoustic theories and evolving practices in fiction, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, animal studies, and religion, this study ranges from Eliot's Middlemarch to Du Maurier's Trilby to demonstrate how the boundaries of the human were challenged by new sound technologies in the Victorian period"--

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781009490450
• ISBN-10: 1009490451
• Artikelnr.: 72108484