George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture
The importance of music to writer Eliot was evident in her fiction, but her use of musical allusion was used for more than simply celebratory purposes. Correa (literature, the Open U.) explores Eliot's use of music as it pertains to her reflections on science, gender, and psychological theory. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture
The importance of music to writer Eliot was evident in her fiction, but her use of musical allusion was used for more than simply celebratory purposes. Correa (literature, the Open U.) explores Eliot's use of music as it pertains to her reflections on science, gender, and psychological theory. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture

George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture

by Delia da Sousa Correa
George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture

George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture

by Delia da Sousa Correa

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The importance of music to writer Eliot was evident in her fiction, but her use of musical allusion was used for more than simply celebratory purposes. Correa (literature, the Open U.) explores Eliot's use of music as it pertains to her reflections on science, gender, and psychological theory. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349432813
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 11/19/2002
Edition description: 1st ed. 2003
Pages: 255
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Delia Da Sousa Correa is in the Literature Department at the Open University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsviii
Acknowledgementsix
Introduction: 'Concords and Discords, Cadences and Cries'1
1Music, Science, Literature: The 'Large Music of Reasonable Speech'11
The origin and function of music12
The scientific debate31
'Liszt, Wagner, and Weimar'45
Musical literary criticism52
2Music and the Woman Question: The 'Minister of Domestic Concord' and 'the Most Sensuous of Accomplishments'59
Music and female education61
The 'minister of domestic concord'66
The 'most sensuous of accomplishments'77
Music and the woman writer91
3The Mill on the Floss: 'A Mind Susceptible to Music'102
The 'laws of attraction'110
Music and memory118
Tragedy and hyperbole126
4Daniel Deronda: 'The Other Side of Silence'130
Musical vocation and literary opera131
Female vocation145
Racial vocation169
Musical sympathies: 'meeting streams'177
Conclusion192
Notes195
Bibliography236
Index249
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