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The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
Phyllis Weliver
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Description for The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.
This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403999948
SKU
V9781403999948
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99-15
About Phyllis Weliver
PHYLLIS WELIVER is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University, USA. She is the author of Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900: Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home (2000) and editor of The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry (2005).
Reviews for The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
'[ The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910 ] joins recent critical work... in moving the study of music and Victorian literature to new and provocative areas and will be of great interest to those who work in Victorian cultural studies and musicology.' - Laura Vorachek, Victorian Studies