The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation
This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.
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The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation
This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.
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The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation

The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation

The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation

The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation

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This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403999948
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 09/05/2006
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Series
Edition description: 2006
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

PHYLLIS WELIVER is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Louis University, USA. She is the author of Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900: Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home (2000) and editor of The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry (2005).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Surveillance and Musical Passion in Villette Germanic Music Ideals in Uptopian Communities: Charles Auchester, Erewhon and "Euphonia" Music, Climate Theory and the Working Classes in Sandra Belloni Imagining 1848 Risorgimento Opera Production in Vittoria Shaw's Fiction and the Emerging English Musical Renaissance From Collective Action to Creative Individuality: Robert Elsmere, Dodo, Althea and Howards End Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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