| Variant title |
Virginia Woolf and Music |
| Contents |
Bloomsbury and music / Rosemary Lloyd -- Virginia Woolf and musical culture / Miháy Szegedy-Maszák -- Music, language, and moments of being: from The voyage out to Between the acts / Adriana Varga -- The birth of Rachel Vinrace from the spirit of music / Jim Stewart -- "The worst of music": listening and narrative in Night and day and "The string quartet" / Vanessa Manhire -- Flying Dutchmen, wandering Jews: romantic opera, anti-Semitism and Jewish mourning in Mrs Dalloway / Emma Sutton -- The efficacy of performance: musical events in The years / Elicia Clements -- Sounding the past: the music in Between the acts / Trina Thompson -- Broken music, broken history: sounds and silence in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts / Sanja Bahun -- "Shivering fragments": music, art, and dance in Virginia Woolf's writing / Evelyn Haller -- Chiming the hours: a Philip Glass soundtrack / Roger Hillman and Deborah Crisp. |
| Abstract |
"These essays explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and other works). Approaching Woolf from musicology, literary criticism, and gender studies, the collection examines Woolf's musical background; music in Woolf's fiction and critical writings; and the importance of music in the Bloomsbury milieu and its role within the larger framework of Modernism. Making use of Woolf's diaries, letters, fiction, and the testimony of her contemporaries, these essays illuminate the rich and deeply musical nature of Woolf's works"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2013046357 |
| ISBN | 9780253012463 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0253012465 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780253012555 (pb) |
| ISBN | 0253012554 (pb) |
