George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture

Download or read book George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture written by Delia da Sousa Correa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Eliot was passionate about music and her writing is steeped in musical allusion. This book explores musical reference in her work and investigates contexts such as Eliot's friendship with Wagner, the legacy of Romanticism, music's role in scientific theory, and the ambivalent status of female musicality. The book establishes how intensely Eliot's musical allusions are informed by her contemporary culture and offers a fresh view of the experimental writing through which she took literary realism into previously uncharted regions.