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Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain, 1770-1840: Virtue and Virtuosity. Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain, 1770-1840: Virtue and Virtuosity. Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Wood, Gillen D.

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Book 82

Literary CriticismGeneral Music

ISBN10: 1107411785
ISBN13: 9781107411784
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 29 2012
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Music was central to everyday life and expression in late Georgian Britain, and this is the first interdisciplinary study of its impact on Romantic literature. Focusing on the public fascination with virtuoso performance, Gillen D'Arcy Wood documents a struggle between sober 'literary' virtue and luxurious, effeminate virtuosity that staged deep anxieties over class, cosmopolitanism, machine technology, and the professionalization of culture. A remarkable synthesis of cultural history and literary criticism, this book opens new perspectives on key Romantic authors - including Burney, Wordsworth, Austen and Byron - and their relationship to definitive debates in late Georgian culture.

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