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Author:
Weliver, Phyllis, author.
Title:
Mary Gladstone and the Victorian salon : music, literature, liberalism / Phyllis Weliver (Saint Louis University).
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xviii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Drew, Mary Gladstone,--1847-1927.
Gladstone, W. E.--(William Ewart),--1809-1898--Family.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,--Baron,--1809-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation.
Drew, Mary Gladstone,--1847-1927
Eliot, George,--1819-1880
Gladstone, W. E.--(William Ewart),--1809-1898
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,--Baron,--1809-1892
Private secretaries--Great Britain--Biography.
Socialites--Great Britain--Biography.
Musicians--Great Britain--Biography.
Women--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Salons--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Music--Great Britain--19th century--History and criticism.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
MUSIC / General.
Families.
Intellectual life.
Music.
Musicians.
Private secretaries.
Salons.
Socialites.
Women--Political activity.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Intellectual history: Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones -- The passion of liberalism -- The Victorian salon -- Music and the Gladstone salon -- Part II. Musical and literary case studies: Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music -- "There ought to be some melody in poetry" : Tennyson's salon readings --"Musical, I see!" : triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving prime ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology and aesthetic democracy"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
New perspectives in music history and criticism
ISBN:
1107184800
9781107184800
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1005057310
LCCN:
2017038712
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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