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Sound, Sin, and Conversion in Victorian England (Paperback)
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Sound, Sin, and Conversion in Victorian England (Paperback)
Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of
nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the
trope galvanized the Victorian conscience and acted as a spur to
social reform. In some notable examples, Julia Grella O'Connell
argues, the iconography of the Victorian fallen woman was
associated with music, reviving an ancient tradition conflating the
practice of music with sin and the abandonment of music with
holiness. The prominence of music symbolism in the
socially-committed, quasi-religious paintings of the
Pre-Raphaelites and their circle, and in the Catholic-Wagnerian
novels of George Moore, gives evidence of the survival of a
pictorial language linking music with sin and conversion, and
shows, even more remarkably, that this language translated fairly
easily into the cultural lexicon of Victorian Britain. Drawing upon
music iconography, art history, patristic theology, and sensory
theory, Grella O'Connell investigates female fallenness and its
implications against the backdrop of the social and religious
turbulence of the mid-nineteenth century.
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