Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

This collection offers students a practical guide to understanding the ways music and literature intersect and the influence of each on the other, as well as developing methods of study.

List of contents

Introduction: A Guide to this Book - Phyllis Weliver and Katharine Ellis

1. Vernon Lee's "A Wicked Voice" (1890): Music and Queerness in Decadent Fiction - Fraser Riddell
2. Conjuring Folk Music: George Sand's The Master Pipers (1853) - Katharine Ellis
3. Bands of Mercy Music: A Cultural Study of Victorian Animal Welfare Songs for Children - Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
4. The Music of the Women's Suffrage Movement - Christopher Wiley
5. Song and the Political Body: William Morris - Elizabeth Helsinger
6. Understanding Colonial Mission Hymns and Hybridity - Philip Burnett
7. Representing Non-Western Music: Robert Louis Stevenson in Kiribati - Emma Sutton
8. Musical Encounters at the Louisiana Lakeside in Charles Jobey's "Le lac Cathahoula" (1856/1861) - Charlotte Bentley
9 Critical Dislocations: Champfleury's Richard Wagner (1860) - Jeremy Coleman
10. Locating Elgar: Nationalism, Landscape and Musical Biography - Daniel M. Grimley
11. Musical Ekphrasis and Intermedial Form in Walter Pater's "Duke Carl of Rosenmold" (1887) - Elicia Clements
12. Women, Music and Tennyson's The Princess (1850 edn) - Phyllis Weliver
13. Reading Whitman, Hearing Vaughan Williams: Sexuality, National Politics and the Role of the Artist in Society - Sarah Collins

Coda - Shafquat Towheed

Index

About the author

Edited by Phyllis Weliver and Katharine Ellis

Summary

This collection offers students a practical guide to understanding the ways music and literature intersect and the influence of each on the other, as well as developing methods of study.

Product details

• Assisted by: Katharine Ellis (Editor), Phyllis Weliver (Editor), Phyllis (Royalty Account) Weliver (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2025
• EAN: 9781837651849
• ISBN: 978-1-83765-184-9
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 233 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: 3 mus exx. and 25 b/w illus.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918