The idea of music in Victorian fiction /
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 w...
| Други автори: | Fuller, Sophie., Losseff, Nicky, 1962- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Aldershot, Hants, England :
Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
℗♭2004.
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| Серия: |
Music in nineteenth-century Britain.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Idea of music in Victorian fiction. |
| Резюме: |
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 Sara Shepherd. 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. The result of these wide-ranging approaches to the subject of music and literature is a new network of methodologies for the continuing investigation of the culture and society of nineteenth-century music as reflected in that period's literary output. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xx, 297 pages). |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-286) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780754605775 0754605779 9780754681724 0754681726 1281097470 9781281097477 |