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George Eliot, music and Victorian culture / Delia da Sousa Correa.
Van Pelt Library PR4692.M87 S68 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sousa Correa, Delia da.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Knowledge and learning--Music.
- Eliot, George.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Music.
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883--Friends and associates.
- Wagner, Richard.
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
- Friends and associates.
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883--Influence.
- Music--Great Britain--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music and literature--History--19th century.
- Music and literature.
- History.
- Musical fiction--History and criticism.
- Musical fiction.
- Music in literature.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Summary:
- George Eliot was passionate about music and her writing is steeped in musical allusion. This book explores musical reference in her work and investigates contexts such as Eliot's friendship with Wagner, the legacy of Romanticism, music's role in scientific theory, and the ambivalent status of female musicality. The book establishes how intensely Eliot's musical allusions are informed by her contemporary culture and offers a fresh view of the experimental writing through which she took literary realism into previously uncharted regions.
- Contents:
- Introduction: 'Concords and Discords, Cadences and Cries' 1
- 1 Music, Science, Literature: The 'Large Music of Reasonable Speech' 11
- The origin and function of music 12
- The scientific debate 31
- 'Liszt, Wagner, and Weimar' 45
- Musical literary criticism 52
- 2 Music and the Woman Question: The 'Minister of Domestic Concord' and 'the Most Sensuous of Accomplishments' 59
- Music and female education 61
- The 'minister of domestic concord' 66
- The 'most sensuous of accomplishments' 77
- Music and the woman writer 91
- 3 The Mill on the Floss: 'A Mind Susceptible to Music' 102
- The 'laws of attraction' 110
- Music and memory 118
- Tragedy and hyperbole 126
- 4 Daniel Deronda: 'The Other Side of Silence' 130
- Musical vocation and literary opera 131
- Female vocation 145
- Racial vocation 169
- Musical sympathies: 'meeting streams' 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333997573
- OCLC:
- 49743598
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