1st Edition
Figures of the Imagination Fiction and Song in Britain, 1790–1850
Introduction: Music and Romance in the Early Nineteenth Century
1 ‘Raise the Song and Strike the Harp’: Minstrelsy, Balladeering, and Romance Fiction, 1790–1830
2 ‘This Horrible Stave They Howl’: The Supernatural in Fiction and Song, 1790–1830
3 ‘Angels Round thy Throne are Hymning’: Christian Virtue in Fiction and Song, 1790–1830
4 ‘Her Voice is Hovering o’er my Soul’: Siren Singers and Received Intersections in Fiction and Song, 1830–1850
Conclusion: Figures of the Imagination: the Intersection of Fiction and Song, 1790–1850
Biography
Roger Hansford holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of Southampton. He has taught on university music history courses and delivered research papers at conferences throughout the UK. His current research interests revolve around nineteenth-century romanticism, particularly music in nineteenth-century Britain and its cultural contexts.
