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Title:

The idea of music in Victorian fiction / edited by Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff.

Publisher:

BurlingtonVT :

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xx, 297 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Music and literature--History--19th century.
Musical fiction--History and criticism.
Music--Great Britain--19th century.
Music in literature.
English fiction.
Music in literature.
Music and literature.
Music
Musical fiction.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Fuller, Sophie, editor.
Losseff, Nicky, 1962- editor.
Parsons, Donna S., 1966-2018, donor. IaU

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-286) and index.

Contents:

Musical Identities. The voice, the breath and the soul : song and poverty in Thyrza, Mary Barton, Alton Locke and A child of the Jago / Nicky Losseff -- Cribbed, cabin'd, and confined' : female musical creativity in Victorian fiction / Sophie Fuller -- Music, crowd control and the female performer in Trilby / Phyllis Weliver.
Genre and musicalities. The piano's progress : the piano in play in the Victorian novel / Jodi Lustig -- Female performances : melodramatic music conventions and The woman in white / Laura Vorachek -- Indecent musical displays : feminizing the pastoral in Eliot's The mill on the floss / Alisa Clapp-Itnyre -- 'Singing like a musical box' : musical detection and novelistic tradition / Irene Morra.
Construction of musical meaning. The 'perniciously homosexual art' : music and homoerotic desire in The picture of Dorian Gray and other fin-de-siècle fiction / Joe Law -- 'You might have called it beauty or poetry or passion just as well as music' : Gertrude Hudson's fictional fantasias / Charlotte Purkis -- The music master and 'the Jew' in Victorian writing : Thomas Carlyle, Richard Wagner, George Eliot and George Du Maurier / Jonathan Taylor -- Thomas Carlyle and the grain of the voice / Karen Tongson.

Summary:

Annotation This volume 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.
Annotation The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction addresses 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, 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, including 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. Together with its companion volume, The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry edited by Phyllis Weliver, 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.

Series:

Music in nineteenth-century Britain

ISBN:

9780754605775
0754605779

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53360635

LCCN:

2003064700

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)