Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle

Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781108996334
ISBN-13 : 1108996337
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Book Synopsis Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle by : Fraser Riddell

Download or read book Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle written by Fraser Riddell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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