In 1940, Virginia Woolf confessed: "I think of all my books as music before I write them." In this work, Emma Sutton compares Woolf's entire novelistic output, as well as several of her essays and short fiction, to music by classical composers, such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner, as well as Woolf's own musical friends: Ethel Smyth, Nadia Boulanger, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Bruno Walter. Sutton reads Woolf's attitudes toward nationalism, class, anti-Semitism, and gender through these juxtapositions and contextualizes her engagement with music within the aesthetic experiments of the...

This is the first book-length study of Forster’s posthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives in literature, film and new media during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begun in 1913 and revised over almost fifty years, Maurice became a defining text in Forster’s work and a canonical example of queer fiction. Yet the critical tendency to read Maurice primarily as a ‘revelation’ of Forster’s homosexuality has obscured important biographical, political and aesthetic contexts for this novel.  This collection places Maurice...