The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music
Cover of the book The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction by Nicky Losseff, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Nicky Losseff ISBN: 9781317028055
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 3, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Nicky Losseff
ISBN: 9781317028055
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 3, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-century culture and society, as mediated through works of fiction. The eleven essays here, written by musicologists and literary scholars, range over a wide selection of works by both canonical writers such as Austen, Benson, Carlyle, Collins, Gaskell, Gissing, Eliot, Hardy, du Maurier and Wilde, and less-well-known figures such as Gertrude Hudson and Elizabeth Sara Sheppard. Each essay explores different strategies for interpreting the idea of music in the Victorian novel. Some focus on the degree to which scenes involving music illuminate what music meant to the writer and contemporary performers and listeners, and signify musical tastes of the time and the reception of particular composers. Other essays in the volume examine aspects of gender, race, sexuality and class that are illuminated by the deployment of music by the novelist. Together with its companion volume, The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry edited by Phyllis Weliver (Ashgate, 2005), this collection suggests a new network of methodologies for the continuing cultural and social investigation of nineteenth-century music as reflected in that period's literary output.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-century culture and society, as mediated through works of fiction. The eleven essays here, written by musicologists and literary scholars, range over a wide selection of works by both canonical writers such as Austen, Benson, Carlyle, Collins, Gaskell, Gissing, Eliot, Hardy, du Maurier and Wilde, and less-well-known figures such as Gertrude Hudson and Elizabeth Sara Sheppard. Each essay explores different strategies for interpreting the idea of music in the Victorian novel. Some focus on the degree to which scenes involving music illuminate what music meant to the writer and contemporary performers and listeners, and signify musical tastes of the time and the reception of particular composers. Other essays in the volume examine aspects of gender, race, sexuality and class that are illuminated by the deployment of music by the novelist. Together with its companion volume, The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry edited by Phyllis Weliver (Ashgate, 2005), this collection suggests a new network of methodologies for the continuing cultural and social investigation of nineteenth-century music as reflected in that period's literary output.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Managing Human Resources for Nonprofits by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Art Direction for Film and Video by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Accounting at War by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947 by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Learning Together by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Vocational Education and Training through Open and Distance Learning by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Introductory Statistics by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Aviation in Crisis by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Perceiving the Affordances by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Rave Culture and Religion by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Understanding the Male Hustler by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques by Nicky Losseff
Cover of the book The Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920–1945 by Nicky Losseff
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy