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British Literature and Classical Music: Cultural Contexts 1870-1945
British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing. Covering authors ranging from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, the book examines literature produced during a period of widely proliferating philosophical, educational, and performance-oriented musical activities in both public and private settings. David Deutsch demonstrates how this proliferation caused classical music to become an increasingly vital element of British culture and a vehicle for exploring contentious issues such as social mobility, sexual freedoms, and international political rivalries.
Through the use of archives of concert programs, cult novels, and letters written during the First and Second World Wars, the book examines how authors both celebrated and satirized the musicality of the lower-middle and working classes, same-sex desiring individuals, and cosmopolitan promoters of a shared European culture to depict these groups as valuable members of and - less frequently as threats to - British life.
Through the use of archives of concert programs, cult novels, and letters written during the First and Second World Wars, the book examines how authors both celebrated and satirized the musicality of the lower-middle and working classes, same-sex desiring individuals, and cosmopolitan promoters of a shared European culture to depict these groups as valuable members of and - less frequently as threats to - British life.
Book Details
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publish Date: Mar 23rd, 2017
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.58in - 0.85lb
- EAN: 9781350028463
- Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• History & Criticism - General• Comparative Literature
About the Author
Deutsch, David: - David Deutsch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA.
Tonning, Erik: - Erik Tonning is Professor of English at NLA University College, Norway, and Professor II of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury. He is the author of Samuel Beckett's Abstract Drama and Modernism and Christianity, as well as the editor of a number of volumes on modernism.
Feldman, Matthew: - Matthew Feldman is Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas, Professional Fellow at the University of York, UK.
Praise for this book
"Deutsch writes about music, chiefly German, that evoked transcendental ideas in British literati, while deftly crossing lines of class, education, and sexual orientation ... Deutsch's argument is vitally important for showing how British listeners discovered a psychological release in the classical repertoire, enabling a "popular cosmopolitanism" that helped to "construct public sanctuaries amidst hostile crowds." - Common Knowledge