1st Edition
The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
Edited By Phyllis Weliver
Copyright 2005
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Phyllis Weliver is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University, USA
’Ashgate are ahead of the field in studies of nineteenth-century music, and this is a valuable addition to their cross-disciplinary list... [the] volume is [...] a significant one, stimulating, and wide-ranging. Its distinction lies chiefly in the freshness of its topic and the articulation of methods through which that topic can be discussed. The most accomplished of its essays will set standards against which future considerations of this subject will be measured.’ Music and Letters ’Phyllis Weliver's collection, new to Ashgate's 'Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain' series, deserves praise for its breadth, balance, and depth... All of the essays are meticulously researched and carefully argued... a stimulating and solid volume. Those with an interest in nineteenth-century British music, or connection between music and literature, will find much to ponder here.’ NABMSA Newsletter
