TY  - GEN
T1  - Sounding Bodies
A1  - Draucker, Shannon
LA  - eng
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-139188
AB  - Can the concert hall be as erotic as the bedroom? Many Victorian writers believed so. In the mid-nineteenth century, acoustical scientists such as Hermann von Helmholtz and John Tyndall described music as a set of physical vibrations that tickled the ear, excited the nerves, and precipitated muscular convulsions. In turn, writers—from canonical figures such as George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, to New Women novelists like Sarah Grand and Bertha Thomas, to anonymous authors of underground pornography—depicted bodily sensations and experiences in unusually explicit ways. These writers used scenes of music listening and performance to intervene in urgent conversations about gender and sexuality and explore issues of agency, pleasure, violence, desire, and kinship. Sounding Bodies shows how both classical music and Victorian literature, while often considered bastions of conservatism and repression, represented powerful sites for feminist and queer politics.
SN  - 9781438498416
SN  - 9781438498409
KW  - Literary Criticism,Gender Studies,Queer Studies,Music,History of Science
KW  - thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
KW  - thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVM History of music
KW  - thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVC Music reviews and criticism
KW  - thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHD Classical mechanics::PHDS Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)
ER  -