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Author:

Jones, Catherine, 1970- author.

Title:

Literature and music in the Atlantic world, 1767-1867 / Catherine Jones.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Music and literature--United States--History--18th century.
Music and literature--United States--History--19th century.
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and criticism.
American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-268) and index.

Contents:

Magic numbers and persuasive sound -- Cosmopolitanism and the nation -- The life in music -- Chants democrative and Native American -- The musical sublime.

Summary:

"Argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music."--Provided by publisher

Series:

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

ISBN:

0748684611 (hardback)
9780748684618 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)890005551

LCCN:

2013497632

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)