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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2024

Melissa Dickson
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
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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 Science
Listening at the Threshold
, pp. 223 - 227
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Conclusion
  • Melissa Dickson, University of Queensland
  • Book: Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
  • Online publication: 13 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009490436.012
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  • Conclusion
  • Melissa Dickson, University of Queensland
  • Book: Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
  • Online publication: 13 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009490436.012
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  • Conclusion
  • Melissa Dickson, University of Queensland
  • Book: Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
  • Online publication: 13 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009490436.012
Available formats
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