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The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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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.
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