How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand better music's place and its significance in nineteenth-century British culture. Analysing how music took part in and commented on a wide range of scientific, literary, and cultural discourses, the book expands our knowledge of how music was central to the nineteenth-century imagination.
How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand better music's place and its significance in nineteenth-century British culture. Analysing how music took part in and commented on a wide range of scientific, literary, and cultural discourses, the book expands our knowledge of how music was central to the nineteenth-century imagination.
Contents: Introduction Scotch drink & Irish harps: mediations of the national air, Celeste Langan 'Suspended' sense in Alastor: Shelley's musical trope and 18th-century medical discourse, Kimiyo Ogawa On music framed: the Eolian harp in romantic writing, Susan Bernstein Music and inspiration in Blake's poetry, John Hughes 'Music their larger soul': George Eliot's 'The Legend of Jubal' and Victorian musicality, Ruth A. Solie Musical reactions to Tennyson: reformulating musical imagery in 'The Lotos-Eaters', Michael Allis 'Monna Innominata' and Christina Rossetti's audible unhappiness, Yeo Wei Wei The 'silent song' of D.G. Rossetti's The House of Life, Phyllis Weliver 'The Music Spoke for Us': music and sexuality in fin-de-siècle poetry, Emma Sutton Sappho recomposed: a song cycle by Granville and Helen Bantock, Yopie Prins Index.
Contents: Introduction Scotch drink & Irish harps: mediations of the national air, Celeste Langan 'Suspended' sense in Alastor: Shelley's musical trope and 18th-century medical discourse, Kimiyo Ogawa On music framed: the Eolian harp in romantic writing, Susan Bernstein Music and inspiration in Blake's poetry, John Hughes 'Music their larger soul': George Eliot's 'The Legend of Jubal' and Victorian musicality, Ruth A. Solie Musical reactions to Tennyson: reformulating musical imagery in 'The Lotos-Eaters', Michael Allis 'Monna Innominata' and Christina Rossetti's audible unhappiness, Yeo Wei Wei The 'silent song' of D.G. Rossetti's The House of Life, Phyllis Weliver 'The Music Spoke for Us': music and sexuality in fin-de-siècle poetry, Emma Sutton Sappho recomposed: a song cycle by Granville and Helen Bantock, Yopie Prins Index.
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