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This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal
music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a
printing industry emerging to serve people's growing appetites for
entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the
occult. No mere diversion, fiction was integral to musical culture
and together both art forms reveal key intellectual currents that
circulated in the early nineteenth-century British home and were
shared by many consumers. Roger Hansford explores relationships
between music produced in the early 1800s for domestic consumption
and the fictional genre of romance, offering a new view of
romanticism in British print culture. He surveys romance novels by
Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Edward
Bulwer and Charles Kingsley in the period 1790-1850, interrogating
the ways that music served to create mood and atmosphere, enlivened
social scenes and contributed to plot developments. He explores the
connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the
domestic song literature, treating both types of source and their
intersection as examples of material culture. Hansford's
intersectional reading revolves around a series of imaginative
figures - including the minstrel, fairies, mermaids, ghosts, and
witches, and Christians engaged both in virtue and vice - the
identities of which remained consistent as influence passed between
the art forms. While romance authors quoted song lyrics and
included musical descriptions and characters, their novels recorded
and modelled the performance of songs by the middle and upper
classes, influencing the work of composers and the actions of
performers who read romance fiction.
This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal
music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a
printing industry emerging to serve people's growing appetites for
entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the
occult. No mere diversion, fiction was integral to musical culture
and together both art forms reveal key intellectual currents that
circulated in the early nineteenth-century British home and were
shared by many consumers. Roger Hansford explores relationships
between music produced in the early 1800s for domestic consumption
and the fictional genre of romance, offering a new view of
romanticism in British print culture. He surveys romance novels by
Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Edward
Bulwer and Charles Kingsley in the period 1790-1850, interrogating
the ways that music served to create mood and atmosphere, enlivened
social scenes and contributed to plot developments. He explores the
connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the
domestic song literature, treating both types of source and their
intersection as examples of material culture. Hansford's
intersectional reading revolves around a series of imaginative
figures - including the minstrel, fairies, mermaids, ghosts, and
witches, and Christians engaged both in virtue and vice - the
identities of which remained consistent as influence passed between
the art forms. While romance authors quoted song lyrics and
included musical descriptions and characters, their novels recorded
and modelled the performance of songs by the middle and upper
classes, influencing the work of composers and the actions of
performers who read romance fiction.
Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class
writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early
twentieth-century itinerant gasworks bricklayers, or
'retort-setters'. Charles Hansford recounts constructing his own
home single-handedly aged twenty-one, describes economic privations
and poor weather conditions. 'Brick Bonds' documents his
relationships with fellow workers and specific building techniques
they used (a bond is a brick-laying pattern). His personal memories
of enemy action in wartime, working-class social and leisure
pursuits in London, the 1924 National Building Strike, and notable
ships like Titanic and Bismarck are set into historical context.
Hansford reveals an evolving class awareness and trade union
activism; a declared Socialist, he readily left building sites in
protest, even into the 1970s. His career encompassed Fawley
Refinery, Royal Netley War Hospital, British Overseas Airways
Company flying-boat bases, and Harrods store in London.
Home to the UK's largest refinery, Fawley is among the most at-risk
parts of the country for petrochemical fires. Its fire service is
vital to the area's infrastructure and its firefighters must always
be prepared. For the first time, the story of this fire station and
of the Waterside's private and military fire brigades is told. From
establishment in the early twentieth century, through the
development of the fire engine and firefighting techniques, to
combating modern-day terrorist threats, Fawley's firefighters have
witnessed it all. This book looks at how the station and its crew,
now reduced from full- to part-time staffing, have evolved in the
face of new dangers and challenges.
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