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work_xbircvnigrf45fz7frwrmzabvy	Rebeccah Bechtold	The "Quietude of Conscience" and the Magnetism of Sound: Listening to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables	2017.0	34	.pdf	application/pdf	12966	972	66	2Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (New York: Modern Library, 3Alan Trachtenberg, "Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne's Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables," American Literary History 9 (1996): these documented sounds become a record of Hawthorne's aurally expanding worldview, of "events heard, not objects seen."9 to Hawthorne's use of sound and silence in The House of the sound's function as a signal of social power more clearly experienced by Hepzibah than in the shop-bell's repetitive ringing. Both Hepzibah and Clifford thus come to experience, although in differing ways, sound's capacity to regulate their Clifford's ears at least, Phoebe's voice discloses sound's connection "to the ultimate concerns of existence," offering proof of American Spiritualism, along with the practice of animal magnetism, certainly had been established as a movement particularly attuned to the sounds emanating from the spectral world.53	./cache/work_xbircvnigrf45fz7frwrmzabvy.pdf	./txt/work_xbircvnigrf45fz7frwrmzabvy.txt