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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585947903321

Autore

Riddell Fraser <1987->

Titolo

Music and the queer body in English literature at the fin de siècle / / Fraser Riddell [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge University Press, 2022

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-108-99633-7

1-108-99656-6

1-108-98954-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 277 pages)

Collana

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 137

Classificazione

LIT004120

Disciplina

820.9/357808664

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Open Access.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Nota di contenuto

Music, emotion and the homosexual subject -- Flesh : music, masochism, queerness -- Voice : disembodiment and desire -- Touch : transmission, contact, connection -- Time : backwards listening.

Sommario/riassunto

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.