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The musical crowd in English fiction, 1840-1910 : class, culture and nation
- Title
- The musical crowd in English fiction, 1840-1910 : class, culture and nation / Phyllis Weliver.
- Author
- Weliver, Phyllis.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR878.M87 W45 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 245 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Phyllis Weaver examines the theme of the 'musical crowd' alongside Victorian social, political, and scientific theories. While usually considered discrete fields today, the fictional works demonstrate that discourses of group management, ethnology, climate, nation, class, and music were highly interactive during a span of at least seventy years. The exchanges between these fields are not readily apparent in looking at the documents produced by the musical profession alone, so fictional works offer unique and significant insight into how various discourses were imagined as mutually constitutive."--Jacket
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Music and literature > History > 19th century
- Music > Social aspects > History > Great Britain > 19th century
- Music in literature
- Social norms in literature
- Collective behavior in literature
- English fiction
- Music and literature
- Music > Social aspects
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-235) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Surveillance and musical passion in Villette -- 2. Germanic music ideals in utopian communities : Charles Auchester, Erewhon and "euphonia" -- 3. Music, climate theory and the working classes in Sandra Belloni -- 4. Imagining 1848 Risorgimento opera production in Vittoria -- 5. Shaw's fiction and the emerging English musical renaissance -- 6. From collective action to creative individuality : Robert Elsmere, Dodo, Althea and Howards End.
- ISBN
- 1403999945
- 9781403999948
- 9780230598768
- 0230598765
- LCCN
- 2006046256
- 9781403999948
- OCLC
- ocm67922746
- 67922746
- SCSB-14510073
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library