Maestros, Dilettantes, and Philistines: The Musician in the Victorian Novel (American University Studies) - Hardcover

Auerbach, Emily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082040926X ISBN 13: 9780820409269

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1989

Synopsis

From long-haired Jewish composers to young women playing «a little» piano to tone-deaf British concert-goers, Victorian novels are filled with musical characters. Auerbach's fascinating and comprehensive study reveals that Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy, Eliot, and other novelists of «das Land ohne Musik» found music to be a rich source of metaphor.

About this title

About the Author:

Emily Auerbach is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, cohost of Wisconsin Public Radio's "University of the Air, and director of the "Courage to Write series of radio documentaries on brave women writers. She has won numerous teaching, broadcasting, and arts awards and has published books, guides, and articles on nineteenth-century literature. Auerbach holds a lifetime membership in the Jane Austen Society of North America.

Review:

«This is not only an exhaustive study of its subject but a consistently intelligent one, characterized by shrewd critical insight, detailed technical knowledge of music as well as of literature, and a flair for the history of ideas. Impeccable scholarship and originality of thought are complemented by an elegant and graceful prose style.» (Professor Edward Alexander, University of Washington)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 082040926X
• ISBN 13: 9780820409269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 213