Angelic airs, subversive songs : music as social discourse in the Victorian novel / Alisa Clapp-Itnyre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Music and literature--History--19th century.

Music and literature.

History.

Music--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Music.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865--Knowledge and learning--Music.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Knowledge and learning--Music.

Eliot, George.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Knowledge and learning--Music.

Hardy, Thomas.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Musical fiction--History and criticism.

Musical fiction.

Social norms in literature.

Dissenters in literature.

Music in literature.

Music--Social aspects.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 226 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2002]

Contents:

1 Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: The Constructions and Controversies of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Society 1

2 Country-City Strife and Communities of Singing Women: Domestic Ballads in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell 45

3 A Subversive Spirituality: The Secularization of Methodist Hymnody in Eliot's Adam Bede 77

4 Indecent Musical Displays: Feminizing the Pastoral in Eliot's The Mill on the Floss 101

5 Classical but Commodified: Female Confrontations with Professionalized Music in Eliot's Daniel Deronda 123

6 Sexual Songs and Darwinian Dances: The Eroticism and Repression of Folk Music in the Novels of Thomas Hardy 149.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (doctorial)--University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.

ISBN:

0821414313

OCLC:

48907098