TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riddell,Fraser
TI  - Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de siècle
T2  - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
SN  - 9781108989541 (ebook)
AV  - PR468.M857 R53 2022
U1  - 820.9/357808664 23/eng/20220207
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Music in literature
KW  - Homosexuality in literature
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Music and literature
KW  - Homosexuality and literature
KW  - Homosexuality and music
KW  - Music
KW  - Physiological effect
KW  - Queer theory
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022); Music, emotion and the homosexual subject -- Flesh : music, masochism, queerness -- Voice : disembodiment and desire -- Touch : transmission, contact, connection -- Time : backwards listening; Open Access
N2  - 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 early-twentieth 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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108989541
ER  -