Book contents
- Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century Literature and culture
- Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Whispers in the Roar
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century Literature and culture
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2024
Book contents
- Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century Literature and culture
- Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Whispers in the Roar
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century Literature and culture
Summary
In her last published writing, a collection of essays entitled Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879), George Eliot’s eponymous narrator speculates about the physiological and psychological qualities of a future human race that has been rewrought by the scientific and technological developments of the Victorian age.
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- Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and ScienceListening at the Threshold, pp. 223 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024