Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de siècle

• Tác giả: Fraser Riddell
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9781108989541 (ebook)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 820.9357808664 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313168
• Chủ đề: 1. English literature--History and criticism--19th century; 2. English literature--History and criticism--20th century; 3. Homosexuality and literature; 4. Homosexuality and music; 5. Homosexuality in literature; 6. Human body in literature; 7. Music--Physiological effect; 8. Music and literature; 9. Music in literature; 10. Queer theory

Tóm tắt

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 early-twentieth 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 siècle 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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.