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The Gaze of the Listener: English Representations of Domestic Music-Making. - Couverture souple

Livre 4 sur 22: Word and Music Studies

Hohl, Trillini Regula

 
9789042024892: The Gaze of the Listener: English Representations of Domestic Music-Making.
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ISBN 10 : 9042024895 ISBN 13 : 9789042024892
Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2009

Synopsis

This study analyzes representations of music in fiction, drama and poetry as well as normative texts in order to contribute to a gendered cultural history of domestic performance. From the Tudors to the First World War, playing the harpsichord or piano was an indispensable asset of any potential bride, and education manuals as well as courtship plots and love poems pay homage to this social function of music. The Gaze of the Listener charts the fundamental tension which determines all these texts: while music is warmly recommended in conduct books and provides standard metaphors like concord and harmony for virtuous love, a profound anxiety about its sensuous inarticulateness and implicit femininity unsettles all descriptions of actual music-making. Along with repressive plot lines, the privileging of visual perception over musical appreciation is the most telling indicator of this problem. The Gaze of the Listener is the first coherent account of this discourse and its historical continuity from the Elizabethan to the Edwardian period and provides a significant background for more narrowly focused research. Its uniquely wide database contextualizes numerous minor works with classics without limiting itself to the fringe phenomenon of musician novels. Including a fresh account of the novels of Jane Austen in their contemporary (rather than Victorian) context, the book is of interest to scholars and students in gender studies, English literature, cultural studies and musicology.

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À propos de l'auteur

Regula Hohl Trillini is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Basel and a trained pianist. Besides Word-and-Music studies, she has published articles on intertextuality and Shakespeare reception and edits the HyperHamlet database.

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Éditeur
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9042024895
ISBN 13 
9789042024892
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
261
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