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By Nicky Losseff, Sophie Fuller
The assumption of song in Victorian Fiction seeks to deal with basic questions on the functionality, that means and knowing of song in nineteenth-century tradition and society, as mediated via works of fiction. The 11 essays right here, written via musicologists and literary students, variety over a big variety of works by means of either canonical writers corresponding to Austen, Benson, Carlyle, Collins, Gaskell, Gissing, Eliot, Hardy, du Maurier and Wilde, and less-well-known figures reminiscent of Gertrude Hudson and Sara Shepherd. every one essay explores various concepts for reading the belief of song within the Victorian novel. a few specialize in the measure to which scenes concerning song remove darkness from what track intended to the author and modern performers and listeners, and characterize musical tastes of the time and the reception of specific composers. different essays within the quantity study elements of gender, race, sexuality and sophistication which are illuminated by way of the deployment of tune by means of the novelist. the results of those wide-ranging methods to the topic of song and literature is a brand new community of methodologies for the ongoing research of the tradition and society of nineteenth-century tune as mirrored in that period's literary output.
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Descriptions of the effects of listening to music and the physical process of making music, as other chapters in this volume show, are both common and important in the Victorian novel, but depicting the creator of or the actual process of creating this non-representational art form seems to have been less appealing. The ‘new note in English music’ discussed at the opening of Hichens’s The Way of Ambition belongs to the novel’s central character, composer Claude Heath. Before he falls into Charmian’s clutches, Heath is wary of fame and composes austere works inspired by religious texts.
45 An obsessive theme of Gissing’s fiction involves bad air, the constriction or freedom of the breath, and early deaths from respiratory conditions,46 but this may well be connected less with his experience of the quality of urban air per se as with the state of his own breathing. 47 In 1897 he wrote to his brother describing a weakness in his right lung, and two years later was diagnosed with emphysema and chronic bronchitis. 49 If bad air and the constricted breath of sick humans or wheezing and breathy musical instruments indicates misery, then ‘freedom of breath’, equates with the opposite: with fresh air, happiness and singing.
On the surface, she is quiet, prim, ordinary and constantly plays down her inner life, but during performance it becomes clear that singing is one true key to her innermost being. 51 Margaret’s 51 Significantly, it is the male Will who is inspired to think of spiritual matters after hearing Margaret sing, and female Mary whose mind dwells on the physical. This militates somewhat against Alisa Clapp’s claim that Will ‘sees the sexual woman more than the musician’. Alisa Clapp, ‘The City, the Country, and Communities of Singing Women: Music in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell’ in Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the 18 NICKY LOSSEFF home environment is another key to her intimate self.