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pp ii-ii

Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-x

Introduction - Whispers in the Roar

pp 1-16

Part I

pp 17-76

Chapter 1 - Accessing the Sounds of the Body

pp 19-38

Chapter 2 - Stethoscopic Fantasies

pp 39-56

Chapter 3 - Middlemarch and the Art of Stethoscopic Listening

pp 57-76

Part II

pp 77-126

Chapter 4 - At the Limits of Audibility

pp 79-104

Chapter 5 - Animal Music

pp 105-126

Part III

pp 127-180

Chapter 6 - Sounds of the Séance

pp 129-148

Chapter 7 - Played upon or Player? Musical Mediums and Creative Inspiration

pp 149-164

Chapter 8 - Dickens among the Spiritualists

pp 165-180

Part IV

pp 181-222

Chapter 9 - Mesmeric Soundscapes

pp 183-198

Chapter 10 - ‘The Individual Operated Upon’

pp 199-222

Conclusion

pp 223-227

Notes

pp 228-269

Select Bibliography

pp 270-290

Index

pp 291-293

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