The musical crowd in English fiction, 1840-1910 [Elektronisk resurs] class, culture and nation / Phyllis Weliver.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Surveillance and Musical Passion in Villette Germanic Music Ideals in Uptopian Communities: Charles Auchester, Erewhonand "Euphonia" Music, Climate Theory and the Working Classes in Sandra Belloni Imagining 1848 Risorgimento Opera Production in Vittoria Shaw's Fiction and the Emerging English Musical Renaissance From Collective Action to Creative Individuality: Robert Elsmere, Dodo, Althea and Howards End Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

• 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. -- Between 1840 and 1910, many best-selling English novels reveal a fascination with the listening audience, musical ensemble, and mass-music movement. This pioneering new book argues that these popular narratives share a perception of musical performance as participating in larger cultural forces, such as ideas about nation. Looking at this cultural thematics also links literature that is not usually discussed together: Charlotte Bronte's Villette is shown to head up a tradition that includes works of fiction by George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Bernard Shaw, Vernon Lee, and E.M. Forster. In her original study, Phyllis Weliver 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. 
• '[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. 

Ämnesord

Music in literature.  (LCSH)

Social norms in literature.  (LCSH)

Collective behavior in literature.  (LCSH)

English fiction  -- History and criticism -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Music and literature  -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Music  -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Theory of music & musicology.  (bicssc)

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.  (bicssc)

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.  (bicssc)

Music.  (eflch)

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