Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon - Music, Literature, Liberalism

This volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.

List of contents

Part I. Intellectual History: 1. Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones; 2. The passion of liberalism; 3. The Victorian salon; 4. Music and the Gladstone salon; Part II. Musical and Literary Case Studies: 5. Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music; 6. '... there ought to be some melody in poetry': Tennyson's salon readings; 7. '... musical, I see!': triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda; 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Phyllis Weliver is Professor in the Department of English at Saint Louis University, Missouri. Her previous publications include Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860–1900 (2000) and The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840–1910 (2006).

Product details

• Authors: Weliver Phyllis Weliver, Phyllis Weliver, Phyllis (Saint Louis University Weliver, Weliver Phyllis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781316636145
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63614-5
• No. of pages: 323
• Series: New Perspectives in Music Hist; New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Music, MUSIC / General, c 1800 to c 1900, Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music