Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism

ISBN-13: 9781316636145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 323 str.

Phyllis Weliver

Opis

This volume reveals the role of music in nineteenth-century British liberalism, exploring the politics, culture, and ideology of Victorian elite society using archival material relating to Mary Gladstone, daughter of the reforming British prime minister. It will interest scholars working in numerous fields including music, literature, politics, history, and women's studies.

Recenzje

'… Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon, explores the importance of the musico-literary intersections of the late nineteenth-century salon to Victorian liberalis … A key strength of Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon is the way in which it uniquely extends nineteenth-century scholarship by revealing new details and connections.' Roger Hansford, Romance, Revolution and Reform

Spis treści

Part I. Intellectual History: 1. Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones; 2. The passion of liberalism; 3. The Victorian salon; 4. Music and the Gladstone salon; Part II. Musical and Literary Case Studies: 5. Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music; 6. '… there ought to be some melody in poetry': Tennyson's salon readings; 7. '… musical, I see!': triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda; 8. Conclusion.