‘Making audible to one a roar of sound where others find perfect stillness’: Soundscape in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil and the physiological acoustics

The article suggests how the ideas in physiological acoustics summed up and further developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physicist, whose figure won popularity among Victorian intellectuals from the middle of the century, could be appropriate to George Eliot’s early writing. The resonant the...

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Main Author: Lilia Miroshnychenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2019-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/6311
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