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.
| ISBN: | 9781403999948 |
| Publication date: | 5th September 2006 |
| Author: | Phyllis Weliver |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 245 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Cultural studies Music Literature: history and criticism Fiction |
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.
The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910 features in the following genres: Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Cultural studies, Music, Literature: history and criticism, Fiction
The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910 is available in Hardback
The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910 was written by Phyllis Weliver and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK
The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910 has 245 pages
Yes it is part of Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture series