The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910 : Class, Culture and Nation
ISBN: 9780230598768
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Literature;

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.

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).

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