Melissa Dickson is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019) and a co-author of Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019).

• Introduction: whispers in the roar; Part I: 1. Accessing the sounds of the body; 2. Stethoscopic fantasies; 3. Middlemarch and the art of stethoscopic listening; Part II: 4. At the limits of audibility; 5. Animal music; Part III: 6. Sounds of the séance; 7. Played upon or player? Musical mediums and creative inspiration; 8. Dickens among the spiritualists; Part IV: 9. Mesmeric soundscapes; 10. 'The Individual Operated Upon': powers of mind and music in George Du Maurier's Trilby.

Melissa Dickson is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019) and a co-author of Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019).

• Introduction: whispers in the roar; Part I: 1. Accessing the sounds of the body; 2. Stethoscopic fantasies; 3. Middlemarch and the art of stethoscopic listening; Part II: 4. At the limits of audibility; 5. Animal music; Part III: 6. Sounds of the séance; 7. Played upon or player? Musical mediums and creative inspiration; 8. Dickens among the spiritualists; Part IV: 9. Mesmeric soundscapes; 10. 'The Individual Operated Upon': powers of mind and music in George Du Maurier's Trilby.