E. M. Forster and Music

This book illustrates how Forster's musical politics resonate across his oeuvre, uncovering the ideological force of his engagement with and representations of music by exploring overlooked contexts including: race and rhythm; material culture and empire; literary heritage and national character; hero-worship and war; gender and professionalism.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Rhythm of the Racial Other: Before Aspects of the Novel; 2. The Queering of Musical Instruments; 3. From Literary Heritage to National Character; 4. The Problem of the Wagnerian Hero; 5. Amateurism, Musicology, and Gender; Postlude.

About the author

Tsung-Han Tsai is an independent scholar specializing in music and twentieth-century literature. Since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews, he has co-edited, with Emma Sutton, Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's Maurice, and has published articles on Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, and life-writing.

Summary

This book illustrates how Forster's musical politics resonate across his oeuvre, uncovering the ideological force of his engagement with and representations of music by exploring overlooked contexts including: race and rhythm; material culture and empire; literary heritage and national character; hero-worship and war; gender and professionalism.

Product details

• Authors: Tsung-Han Tsai
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108844314
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84431-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; English, Music reviews & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Music reviews and criticism