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Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900 Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home
By Phyllis Weliver
Copyright 2000
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first publushed in 2000. Phyllis Weliver investigates representations of female musicians in British novels from 1860 to 1900 with regard to changing gender roles, musical practices and scientific discourses. During this time women were portrayed in complex and nuanced ways as they played and sang in family drawing rooms. Women in the 19th century were judged on their manners,... Read more
Introduction; 1: Musical Women in England, 1860-1900; 2: Harmony and Discord in the Self: Music, Mesmerism and Mental Science; 3: Female Power in Sensation Fiction; 4: Dissonance and Fugue in The Mystery of Edwin Drood; 5: George Eliot: Melody, Evolution and Aesthetics; 6: Recapitulation and Natural Selection in The Mill on the Floss; 7: Sexual Selection and Music: Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda; Conclusion: Trilby
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Phyllis Weliver
