| Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 137. ^A344711
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| Contents |
Music, emotion and the homosexual subject -- Flesh : music, masochism, queerness -- Voice : disembodiment and desire -- Touch : transmission, contact, connection -- Time : backwards listening. |
| Abstract |
"Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de si̐uecle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Riddell, Fraser, 1987- Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de si̐uecle Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108989541 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques litt̐ueraires. |
| LCCN | 2021054043 |
| ISBN | 9781108839204 |
| ISBN | 1108839207 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781108984584 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1108984584 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
