The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)
Contributors: Sophie Fuller (Editor); Nicky Losseff (Editor)
Publisher: Burlington VT
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780754605775
Subjects: Music; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; History; English; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Music and literature; 19th century; English fiction; History & Criticism - General; History and criticism; Musical fiction
First sentence: Music, in its abstract sense, could often be characterized by sage writers as 'divine' in the nineteenth century; but the power inherent in the notion of music-making was problematized by its situation in one of several contradictory positions.