Title Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de siècle / Fraser Riddell

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 137 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 137. Contents Music, emotion and the homosexual subject -- Flesh : music, masochism, queerness -- Voice : disembodiment and desire -- Touch : transmission, contact, connection -- Time : backwards listening Summary "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 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"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Victorian literature music queer studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2022) Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Music in literature. Homosexuality in literature. Human body in literature. Music and literature. Homosexuality and literature. Homosexuality and music. Music -- Physiological effect. Queer theory. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Homosexuality and literature Homosexuality and music Homosexuality in literature Human body in literature Music and literature Music in literature Music -- Physiological effect Queer theory Homosexuality. Sexual orientation. Queer theory. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021054044 ISBN 9781108989541 1108989543

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