Women and Music in the Age of Austen / edited by Linda Zionkowski [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zionkowski, Linda, editor.

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicians in literature.

Music in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bucknell University Press

Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience from Austen’s time. Contesting the distinctions between professional and amateur musicians, public and domestic sites of musical production, and performers and composers of music, the contributors reveal how women’s widespread involvement in the Georgian musical scene allowed for self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. This volume’s breadth of focus advances our understanding of a period that witnessed a musical flourishing, much of it animated by female hands and voices. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: “It Was All in Harmony”—Musical Women in Austen’s Culture

PART ONE: Representing the Female Performer

1 A Musical Room of Her Own: Musical Spaces in Jane Austen’s Novels

2 “Prima La Musica”: Gentry Daughters at Play in Town, Country, and Continent, 1815–1825

3 Stage Fright: Female Musicians Crossing Musical Borders in Thicknesse’s The School for Fashion and Burney’s The Wanderer

PART TWO : Women and the Market in Music

4 Women on the Title Page: Celebrity Endorsement of Musical Scores

5 The Lady’s Choice: Women and the Purchase of Music through Subscription

6 Female Musical Entrepreneurship in the Eighteenth Century

PART THREE: Women as Critics and Fans

7 Women as Quiet Critics

8 Femininity and Foreignness in George Colman’s Farce The Musical Lady

9 Georgian Fangirls: Women and Castrati in Eighteenth-Century London

PART FOUR: Women and the Bardic Tradition

10 Anna Gordon and the Ballad Collectors

11 Antiquaries, Female Harpists, and the Survival of the Bardic Tradition

PART FIVE: Revisiting the Age of Austen

12 “That Ecstatic Delight”: Gender and Performance in Adaptations of Sense and Sensibility

13 “Here’s Harmony!”: Music and Gender in Kirke Mechem’s Pride & Prejudice (2019) and Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park (2011)

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68448-518-5

1-68448-517-7

OCLC:

1410333750