Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle

Name: Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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By Fraser Riddell

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"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 earlytwentieth 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 siáecle 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"--

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 298
Release Date:: 2025-03-27
Publication Date:: 2025-03-27
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1108984584
ISBN13:: 9781108984584
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 435 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 16 cm

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