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Women and music in the age of Austen / edited by Linda Zionkowski with Miriam F. Hart.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women musicians--Great Britain.
- Women musicians.
- Music--Great Britain--18th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Women in the music trade--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Women in the music trade.
- Music and literature--History--18th century.
- Music and literature.
- Women musicians in literature.
- Musicians in literature.
- Music in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- [1.].
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2023.
- Contents:
- Introduction. "It was all in harmony" : Musical Women in Austen's Culture / Linda Zionkowski with Miriam F. Hart
- Part I. Representing the Female Performer. A Musical Room of Her Own : Musical Spaces in Jane Austen's Novels / Pierre Dubois ; "Prima la musica" : Gentry Daughters at Play in Town, Country, and Continent, 1815-1825 / Kelly M. McDonald ; Stage Fright : Female Musicians Crossing Musical Borders in Thicknesse's The School for Fashion and Burney's The Wanderer / Danielle Grover
- Part II. Women and the Market in Music. Women on the Title Page : Celebrity Endorsement of Musical Scores / Penelope Cave ; The Lady's Choice : Women and the Purchase of Music through Subscription / Simon D. I. Fleming ; Female Musical Entrepreneurship in the Eighteenth Century / Alison C. DeSimone
- Part III. Women as Critics and Fans. Women as Quiet Critics / Jane Girdham ; Femininity and Foreignness in George Colman's Farce, The Musical Lady / Leslie Ritchie ; Georgian Fangirls : Women and Castrati in Eighteenth-Century London / Jeffrey A. Nigro
- Part IV. Women and the Bardic Tradition. Anna Gordon and the Ballad Collectors / Ruth Perry ; Antiquaries, Female Harpists, and the Survival of the Bardic Tradition / Devon R. Nelson
- Part V. Revisiting the Age of Austen. "That Ecstatic Delight" : Gender and Performance in Adaptations of Sense and Sensibility / Gayle Magee ; "Here's harmony!" : Music and Gender in Kirke Mechem's Pride & Prejudice (2019) and Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park (2011) / Juliette Wells.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781684485178 (electronic bk.)
- 1684485177 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99995239681
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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