Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature - Hardcoverby Shannon Draucker (Author) Can the concert hall be as erotic as the bedroom? Many Victorian writers believed so. In the mid nineteenth century, acoustical scientists such as Hermann von Helmholtz and John Tyndall described music as a set of physical vibrations that tickled the ear, excited the nerves, and precipitated muscular convulsions. In turn, writers from canonical figures such as George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, to New Women novelists like