Mary Gladstone and the Victorian salon : music, literature, liberalism / Phyllis Weliver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weliver, Phyllis, author.

Series:

New perspectives in music history and criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drew, Mary Gladstone, 1847-1927.

Drew, Mary Gladstone.

Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898--Family.

Gladstone, W. E.

Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898.

Private secretaries--Great Britain--Biography.

Private secretaries.

Socialites--Great Britain--Biography.

Socialites.

Musicians--Great Britain--Biography.

Musicians.

Women--Political activity--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women.

Salons--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Salons.

Music--Great Britain--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

History.

Women--Political activity.

Families.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 305 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving prime ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology and aesthetic democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Intellectual History: 1. Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones; 2. The passion of liberalism; 3. The Victorian salon; 4. Music and the Gladstone salon; Part II. Musical and Literary Case Studies: 5. Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music; 6. '... there ought to be some melody in poetry': Tennyson's salon readings; 7. '... musical, I see!': triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda; 8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107184800

1107184800

OCLC:

1005057310