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Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon
Music, Literature, Liberalism

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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history. Zusammenfassung This volume reveals the role of music in nineteenth-century British liberalism! exploring the politics! culture! and ideology of Victorian elite society using archival material relating to Mary Gladstone! daughter of the reforming British prime minister. It will interest scholars working in numerous fields including music! literature! politics! history! and women's studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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