Weliver The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910

Class, Culture and Nation
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-59876-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weliver, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Surveillance and Musical Passion in Villette Germanic Music Ideals in Uptopian Communities: Charles Auchester, Erewhon and "Euphonia" Music, Climate Theory and the Working Classes in Sandra Belloni Imagining 1848 Risorgimento Opera Production in Vittoria Shaw's Fiction and the Emerging English Musical Renaissance From Collective Action to Creative Individuality: Robert Elsmere, Dodo, Althea and Howards End Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

PHYLLIS WELIVER is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University, USA. She is the author of (2000) and editor of (2005).