TY  - GEN
T1  - Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de siècle
T2  - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
A1  - Riddell, Fraser, 1987-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781108989541
AB  - Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
OP  - 277
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).
CN  - PR468.M857 R53 2022
SN  - 9781108989541 (ebook)
SN  - 9781108839204 (hardback)
SN  - 9781108984584 (paperback)
SN  - 9781108839204
KW  - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - English literature : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Music in literature.
KW  - Homosexuality in literature.
KW  - Human body in literature.
KW  - Music and literature.
KW  - Homosexuality and literature.
KW  - Homosexuality and music.
KW  - Music : Physiological effect.
KW  - Queer theory.
ER  -