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Author Jones, Catherine, 1970- author.

Title Literature and music in the Atlantic world, 1767-1867 / Catherine Jones
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
Contents Magic numbers and persuasive sound -- Cosmopolitanism and the nation -- The life in music -- Chants democrative and Native American -- The musical sublime
Summary This new study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Catherine Jones begins by examining the attitudes to music and its performance by leading figures of the American Enlightenment and Revolution, notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. She also looks at the attempts of Francis Hopkinson, William Billings and others to harness the Orphean power of music so that it should become a progressive force in the creation of a new society. She argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music. Key Features. The first study devoted to literature and music in the Atlantic world Includes detailed examination of works by canonical and lesser known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American writers and composers Shows the intertwining of European and American cultural forms Integrates the history of music and the history of subjectivity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Music and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Music and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism
American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature
American literature -- Colonial period
American literature -- Revolutionary period (United States)
Music and literature
Literatur
Amerikanisches Englisch
Musik
Musik.
Literatur.
United States
Atlantischer Raum
USA.
Europa.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013497632
ISBN 9780748684625
074868462X