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

ISBN-13: 9781108839204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 298 str.

Fraser (University of Durham) Riddell

Opis

The first comprehensive study of music and queer identities in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century English literature.

Recenzje

'… offers a crucial contribution to conversations in both Victorian studies and queer musicology about the relationships among aesthetics, erotics, embodiment, and subjectivity. Riddell invites readers in both fields to reimagine music not as a utopian source of identity affirmation, but rather as a “startlingly antihumanist” force that fosters a range of complex, difficult, and often disturbing affects and experiences (51).' Shannon Draucker, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Music, emotion and the homosexual subject; 2. Flesh: Music, masochism, queerness; 3. Voice: Disembodiment and desire; 4. Touch: Transmission, contact, connection; 5. Time: Backwards listening; Coda.