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Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de siècle
- Title
- Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de siècle / Fraser Riddell.
- Author
- Riddell, Fraser, 1987-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- ix, 277 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 137
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 137.
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Music in literature
- Homosexuality in literature
- Human body in literature
- Music and literature
- Homosexuality and literature
- Homosexuality and music
- Music > Physiological effect
- Queer theory
- English literature
- Homosexuality
- Monosexuality
- Sexual orientation
- Theories
- Music
- Genre/Form
- Literary criticism.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-274) and index.
- Contents
- Music, emotion and the homosexual subject -- Flesh : music, masochism, queerness -- Voice : disembodiment and desire -- Touch : transmission, contact, connection -- Time : backwards listening.
- Call Number
- JME 22-565
- ISBN
- 9781108839204
- 1108839207
- 9781108984584
- 1108984584
- LCCN
- 2021054043
- OCLC
- 1274201185
- Author
- Riddell, Fraser, 1987- author.
- Title
- Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de siècle / Fraser Riddell.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 137Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 137.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-274) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Riddell, Fraser, 1987- Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de siècle Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108989541 (DLC) 2021054044
- Research Call Number
- JME 22-565