05117nam 22007813 450 991087068430332120240729165823.09781438498393143849839X(MiAaPQ)EBC31046569(Au-PeEL)EBL31046569(CKB)32292353500041(DE-B1597)684369(DE-B1597)9781438498393(OCoLC)1441724069(MdBmJHUP)musev2_125647(Perlego)4320575(EXLCZ)993229235350004120240616d2024 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSounding Bodies Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature1st ed.Albany :State University of New York Press,2024.©2024.1 online resource (296 pages)SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.9781438498416 1438498411 9781438498409 1438498403 Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Erotic Symphony -- Acoustical Readings -- Listening In: Sound, Sensation, and Science in Victorian Studies -- Reembodying Victorian Sound Studies -- The Feminist and Queer Uses of Acoustical Science -- Hearing New Things: New Directions for Music-Literature Studies -- Music Beyond Metaphor -- Queering the Concert Hall -- Good Vibrations: Expanding the Erotic in Victorian Studies -- Program Notes: Plan of the Book -- Part One: Sounds and BodiesChapter One: Hearing, Touching, Feeling Sound: Acoustical Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Physical Acoustics -- Physiological Acoustics -- "Not Mere Vibrations": Aesthetic Debates -- Acoustical Science in Victorian Culture -- Part Two: Genders -- Chapter Two: Bare Arms and Quivering Nerves: The "Lady Violinist" Novels of Mary Augusta Ward and M. E. Francis -- The "Lady Violinist" in Victorian Literature -- "Beyond Her Muscular Power": Female Violinists in Victorian England -- Brahms in the Blood: Robert Elsmere -- "Itching" to Be Heard: The Duenna of a GeniusPhysiological Acoustics and Feminist Politics -- Chapter Three: Cross-Dressing Violinists and Music/Gender Performance in The Heavenly Twins and The Violin-Player -- "The Difference That Dress Makes": Contingent Virtuosity in The Heavenly Twins -- "A Real Genius": Triumphant Musicality in The Violin-Player -- "Without Regard to Sex" -- Part Three: Sexualities -- Chapter Four: Dangerous Vibrations: Musical Rape in George Eliot and Thomas Hardy -- "In Spite of Her Resistance": The Mill on the Floss -- "Excruciating Spasms": Desperate Remedies and "The Fiddler of the Reels"Chapter Five: Orgasm in the Orchestra Box: Teleny's Musical Pornography -- "Natural Tastes": Teleny's Defense of Same-Sex Desire -- Aural Sex: Teleny's Queer Erotics -- Part Four: Intimacies -- Chapter Six: Fiddle Feelings: Human-Instrument Intimacies in Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy -- "Corporeal Co-Dependence": Human-Instrument Relations in Victorian Acoustical Science -- Sympathetic Kinship: George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss -- Cello Friendship: Anthony Trollope's The Warden -- Passioned Pulsings: Thomas Hardy's "Haunting Fingers" -- Self-Playing InstrumentsChapter Seven: Musical Hauntings and Otherworldly Erotics in The Lost Stradivarius and "A Wicked Voice" -- "Acoustical Affinities": The Lost Stradivarius -- The Murmur of the Castrato: "A Wicked Voice" -- Is the Concert Hall Haunted? -- Coda: Re-vitalizing Contemporary Classical Music -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexShows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century SeriesEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEroticism in literatureFeminist theoryHuman body in literatureMusic in literatureMusicPhysiological effectQueer theoryLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshbisacshElectronic books. English literatureHistory and criticism.Eroticism in literature.Feminist theory.Human body in literature.Music in literature.MusicPhysiological effect.Queer theory.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.820.9/353809034Draucker Shannon1744931MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910870684303321Sounding Bodies4175300UNINA