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Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon

Music, Literature, Liberalism

By: Phyllis Weliver

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Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon

Music, Literature, Liberalism

By: Phyllis Weliver

The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late-Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology, and aesthetic democracy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316886956

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9781316886953

Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900

Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home

By: Phyllis Weliver

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Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900

Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home

By: Phyllis Weliver

This title was first publushed in 2000. Phyllis Weliver investigates representations of female musicians in British novels from 1860 to 1900 with regard to changing gender roles, musical practices and scientific discourses. During this time women were portrayed in complex and nuanced ways as they played and sang in family drawing rooms. Women in the 19th century were judged on their manners, appearance, language and other accomplishments such as sewing or painting, but music stood out as an area where women were encouraged to take centre stage and demonstrate their genteel education, graceful movements and self-expression. However within the novels of the Victorian were begining to move away from portraying the musical accomplishments of middle- and upper-class women as feminine and worthwhile towards depicting musical women as truly dangerous. This book explores the reasons for this reaction and the way labels and images were constructed to show extremes of behaviour, and it looks at whether the fiction was depicting the real trends in music at the time.

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Routledge

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1351744488

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9781351744485

The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910

Class, Culture and Nation

By: Phyllis Weliver

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The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910

Class, Culture and Nation

By: Phyllis Weliver

Examining innovations in audience behaviour, musical ensembles and mass-music movements, this book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works of the day, Weliver draws upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by professional musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive. This interdisciplinary undertaking will interest those working in the fields of English literature, musicology, social history and cultural studies.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403999945

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9781403999948

Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon

Music, Literature, Liberalism

By: Phyllis Weliver

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Music, Literature, Liberalism

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Book's by Phyllis Weliver

Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon

Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon

Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900

Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900

The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910

The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910

Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon

Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon

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