Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop
Although critics have devoted considerable attention to the visual dimension of Dickens’s novels, relatively little work has been done on Dickens and sound. This essay takes a sound studies approach to reading The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that Dickens possessed a powerful auditory imagination tha...
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2016-06-01
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| description | Although critics have devoted considerable attention to the visual dimension of Dickens’s novels, relatively little work has been done on Dickens and sound. This essay takes a sound studies approach to reading The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that Dickens possessed a powerful auditory imagination that is on full display in this text. The essay gives a brief history of the term “soundscape,” surveys the current state of research on Dickens and sound, proposes a simple taxonomy of Dickensian sound effects, and analyzes various uses to which sound is put in this “noisy” novel. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-71f6e6a71e3c47f39a1a7d401e87516c2025-01-09T12:54:53ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182016-06-0113210.4000/erea.4943Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity ShopJohn O. JORDANAlthough critics have devoted considerable attention to the visual dimension of Dickens’s novels, relatively little work has been done on Dickens and sound. This essay takes a sound studies approach to reading The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that Dickens possessed a powerful auditory imagination that is on full display in this text. The essay gives a brief history of the term “soundscape,” surveys the current state of research on Dickens and sound, proposes a simple taxonomy of Dickensian sound effects, and analyzes various uses to which sound is put in this “noisy” novel.https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4943DickensBabbagesoundscapevoiceauditory imaginationuncanny sound |
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| title | Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop |
| title_full | Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop |
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| title_short | Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop |
| title_sort | dickens and soundscape the old curiosity shop |
| topic | Dickens Babbage soundscape voice auditory imagination uncanny sound |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4943 |
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