The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840- 910

The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840- 910
Title The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840- 910 PDF eBook
Author Phyllis Weliver
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 2006
Genre British literature
ISBN 9781349548071

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This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.

The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910

The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910
Title The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910 PDF eBook
Author P. Weliver
Publisher Springer
Pages 254
Release 2006-09-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230598765

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This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.

Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898

Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898
Title Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898 PDF eBook
Author L. Rotunno
Publisher Springer
Pages 188
Release 2013-07-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137323809

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By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.

The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel

The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel
Title The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel PDF eBook
Author Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg
Publisher Routledge
Pages 223
Release 2016-03-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317021223

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In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of individual expression by permitting the performer to modify the tempo. Because the traditional piano was the undisputed altar of domestic and highly gendered music-making, Björkén-Nyberg suggests, the potential for intervention by the mechanical piano's operator had a subversive effect on traditional notions about the status of the musical work itself and about the people who were variously defined by their relationship to it. She examines works by Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, Max Beerbohm and Compton Mackenzie, among others, contending that Edwardian fiction with music as a subject undermined the prevalent antithesis, expressed in contemporary music literature, between a nineteenth-century conception of music as a means of transcendence and the increasing mechanisation of music as represented by the player piano. Her timely survey of the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse draws on a rich array of archival materials to shed new light on the historically conditioned activity of music-making in early twentieth-century fiction.

Female Performers in British and American Fiction

Female Performers in British and American Fiction
Title Female Performers in British and American Fiction PDF eBook
Author Barbara Straumann
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 297
Release 2018-05-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110558661

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The female performer with a public voice constitutes a remarkably vibrant theme in British and American narratives of the long nineteenth century. The tension between fictional female performers and other textual voices can be seen to refigure the cultural debate over the ‘voice’ of women in aesthetically complex ways. By focusing on singers, actresses, preachers and speakers, this book traces and explores an important tradition of feminine articulation. Drawing on critical approaches in literary studies, gender studies and philosophy, the book conceptualizes voice for the discussion of narrative texts. Examining voice both as a thematic concern and as an aesthetic effect, the individual chapters analyse how the actual articulation by female performers correlates with their cultural visibility and agency. What this study foregrounds is how women characters succeed in making themselves heard even if their voices are silenced in the end.

British Literature and Classical Music

British Literature and Classical Music
Title British Literature and Classical Music PDF eBook
Author David Deutsch
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 273
Release 2015-09-24
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1474235832

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British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing. Covering authors ranging from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, the book examines literature produced during a period of widely proliferating philosophical, educational, and performance-oriented musical activities in both public and private settings. David Deutsch demonstrates how this proliferation caused classical music to become an increasingly vital element of British culture and a vehicle for exploring contentious issues such as social mobility, sexual freedoms, and international political rivalries. Through the use of archives of concert programs, cult novels, and letters written during the First and Second World Wars, the book examines how authors both celebrated and satirized the musicality of the lower-middle and working classes, same-sex desiring individuals, and cosmopolitan promoters of a shared European culture to depict these groups as valuable members of and - less frequently as threats to – British life.

British Music and Literary Context

British Music and Literary Context
Title British Music and Literary Context PDF eBook
Author Michael Allis
Publisher Boydell Press
Pages 334
Release 2012
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1843837307

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Despite several recent monographs, editions and recordings devoted to the reassessment of British music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some negative perceptions still remain--particularly a sense that British composers in this period somehow lacked literary credentials. British Music and Literary Context counters this perception by showing that these composers displayed a real confidence and assurance in refiguring literary texts in their music. The book explores how a literary context might offer modern audiences and listeners a 'way in' to appreciate specific works that have traditionally been viewed as problematic. Each chapter of this interdisciplinary study juxtaposes a British composer with a particular literary counterpart or genre. Issues highlighted in the book include the vexed relationship between words and music, the refiguring of literary narratives as musical structures, and the ways in which musical settings or representations of literary texts might be seen as critical 'readings' of those texts. Anyone interested in nineteenth-century British music, literature and Victorian studies will enjoy this thought-provoking and perceptive book.