Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900: Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home

353 Pages·2016·11.872 MB·English

by  Phyllis Weliver

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Women Musicians in
Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900
Representations of music, science and
gender in the leisured home
Phyllis Weliver
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Weliver, Phyllis
Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900: Representations of Music,
Science and Gender in the Leisured Home. - (Music in Nineteenth-Century
Britain)
l. English fiction-19th century-History and criticism. 2. Women in literature.
3. Musicians in literature. 4. Family in literature.
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Contents
Acknowledgements vu
List of Illustrations IX
Introduction
Musical Women in England, 1860-1900 19
2 Harmony and Discord in the Self:
Music, Mesmerism and Mental Science 59
3 Female Power in Sensation Fiction 98
4 Dissonance and Fugue in The Mystery of Edwin Drood 116
5 George Eliot: Melody, Evolution and Aesthetics 144
6 Recapitulation and Natural Selection in The Mill on the Floss 184
7 Sexual Selection and Music: Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda 206
Conclusion: Trilby 245
Appendix A: Source Readings 285
Appendix B: Glossary of Musical Terms 299
Bibliography 301
Index 313