The musical crowd in English fiction, 1840-1910 : class, culture, and nation
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The musical crowd in English fiction, 1840-1910 : class, culture, and nation
（Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-235) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Surveillance and Musical Passion in Villette Germanic Music Ideals in Uptopian Communities: Charles Auchester, Erewhon and "Euphonia" Music, Climate Theory and the Working Classes in Sandra Belloni Imagining 1848 Risorgimento Opera Production in Vittoria Shaw's Fiction and the Emerging English Musical Renaissance From Collective Action to Creative Individuality: Robert Elsmere, Dodo, Althea and Howards End Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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