The idea of music in Victorian fiction
By: edited by Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff.
Contributors: Fuller, Sophie.; Losseff, Nicky, 1962-
Series: Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Burlington, VT; Ashgate
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Music and literature -- History -- 19th century; Musical fiction -- History and criticism; Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century; Music in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Musical Identities. The voice, the breath and the soul : song and poverty in Thyrza, Mary Barton, Alton Locke and A child of the Jago / Nicky Losseff; title: Cribbed, cabin'd, and confined' : female musical creativity in Victorian fiction / Sophie Fuller; title: Music, crowd control and the female performer in Trilby / Phyllis Weliver.; title: Genre and musicalities. The piano's progress : the piano in play in the Victorian novel / Jodi Lustig; title: Female performances : melodramatic music conventions and The woman in white / Laura Vorachek; title: Indecent musical displays : feminizing the pastoral in Eliot's The mill on the floss / Alisa Clapp-Itnyre; title: 'Singing like a musical box' : musical detection and novelistic tradition / Irene Morra.; title: Construction of musical meaning. The 'perniciously homosexual art' : music and homoerotic desire in The picture of Dorian Gray and other fin-de-siècle fiction / Joe Law; title: 'You might have called it beauty or poetry or passion just as well as music' : Gertrude Hudson's fictional fantasias / Charlotte Purkis; title: The music master and 'the Jew' in Victorian writing : Thomas Carlyle, Richard Wagner, George Eliot and George Du Maurier / Jonathan Taylor; title: Thomas Carlyle and the grain of the voice / Karen Tongson.