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The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
Phyllis Weliver (Ed.)
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Description for The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
Paperback. Editor(s): Weliver, Phyllis, Dr. Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. BIC Classification: AV; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand better music's place and its significance in nineteenth-century British culture. Analysing how music took part in and commented on a wide range of scientific, literary, and cultural discourses, the book expands our knowledge of how music was central to the nineteenth-century imagination. Like its companion volume, The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (Ashgate, 2004) edited by Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff, this book provides a meeting ... Read more
How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand better music's place and its significance in nineteenth-century British culture. Analysing how music took part in and commented on a wide range of scientific, literary, and cultural discourses, the book expands our knowledge of how music was central to the nineteenth-century imagination. Like its companion volume, The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (Ashgate, 2004) edited by Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff, this book provides a meeting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
Series
Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138263567
SKU
V9781138263567
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About Phyllis Weliver (Ed.)
Phyllis Weliver is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University, USA
Reviews for The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
’Ashgate are ahead of the field in studies of nineteenth-century music, and this is a valuable addition to their cross-disciplinary list... [the] volume is [...] a significant one, stimulating, and wide-ranging. Its distinction lies chiefly in the freshness of its topic and the articulation of methods through which that topic can be discussed. The most accomplished of its ... Read more