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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2016-06-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4943 |
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| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |