The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music

by Delia da Sousa Correa (Editor)

Overview

Provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuries

Offers research essays by literary specialists and musicologists that provides access to the best current interdisciplinary scholarship on connections between literature and musicIncludes five historical sections from the Middle Ages to the present, with editorial introductions to enhance understanding of relationships between literature and music in each periodCharts and extends work in this expanding interdisciplinary field to provide an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media
Bringing together seventy-one newly commissioned original chapters by literary specialists and musicologists, this book presents the most recent interdisciplinary research into literature and music. In five parts, the chapters cover the Middle Ages to the present. The volume introduction and methodology chapters define key concepts for investigating the interdependence of these two art forms and a concluding chapter looks to the future of this interdisciplinary field. An editorial introduction to each historical part explains the main features of the relationships between literature and music in the period and outlines recent developments in scholarship. Contributions represent a multiplicity of approaches: theoretical, contextual and close reading. Case studies reach beyond literature and music to engage with related fields including philosophy, history of science, theatre, broadcast media and popular culture.
This trailblazing companion charts and extends the work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748693122
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	07/08/2020
Series:	Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Pages:	720
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x (d)

About the Author

Delia da Sousa Correa is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open Universityand co-convenor of the OU’s Literature and Music Research Group. She studied in New Zealand, London, and Oxford and previously taught at the universities of Oxford and St Petersburg. Her research explores connections between literature and music in the Victorian and early-modernist periods.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements

Introduction - Delia da Sousa Correa1. Intertextuality, Topic Theory and the Open Text - Michael L. Klein2. Secrets, Technology and Musical Narrative: Remarks on Method - Lawrence Kramer3. Derrida, de Man, Barthes, and Music as the Soul of Writing - Peter Dayan

Part I: Literature and Music before 1500Introduction - Ardis Butterfi eld, Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach4. Music and the Book: The Textualisation of Music and the Musicalisation of Text - Helen Deeming5. Liturgical Music and Drama - Nils Holger Petersen6. Intermedial Texts - Maureen Boulton7. Citation and Quotation - Jennifer Saltzstein8. Polytextuality - Suzannah Clark and Elizabeth Eva Leach9. Courtly Subjectivities - Helen J. Swift and Anne Stone10. Gender: The Art and Hermeneutics of (In)differentiation - Elizabeth Eva Leach and Nicolette Zeeman

Part II: Literature and Music in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Introduction - Ros King11. Music and the Literature of Science in Seventeenth-Century England - Penelope Gouk12. The ‘Sister’ Arts of Music and Poetry in Early Modern England - Helen WilcoxMetrical Forms and Rhythmic Effects: Music, Poetry and Song13. The Music of Narrative Poetry: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton - David Fuller14. Against ‘the Music of Poetry’ - Robert Stagg15. Speaking the Song: Music, Language and Emotion in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline - Erin MinearPerformers and Performance16. Shakespeare’s Musicians: Status and Hierarchy - B. J. Sokol17. Best-Selling Ballads in Seventeenth-Century England - Christopher Marsh18. Italian Performance Practices in Seventeenth-Century English Song - Elizabeth Kenny Theatre Music and Opera19. From Tragicomedy to Opera? John Marston’s Antonio and Mellida - Ros King20. Learning to Lament: Opera and the Gendering of Emotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy - Wendy Heller21. All-Sung English Opera Experiments in the Seventeenth Century - Andrew Pinnock

Part III: Literature and Music in the Eighteenth Century

Introduction - Suzanne Aspden22. Thomas Arne and ‘Inferior’ English Opera - Suzanne Aspden23. Phaedra and Fausta: Female Transgression and Punishment in Ancient and Early Modern Plays - Reinhard Strohm24. ‘When Farce and when Musick can eke out a Play’: Ballad Opera and Theatre’s Commerce - Berta Joncus

Oratorio25. National Aspiration: Samson Agonistes Transformed in Handel’s Samson - Ruth Smith26. Maurice Greene and the English Church Music Tradition - Matthew Gardner

Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Music27. The Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Music: Virtuous Performers and Well-Mannered Listeners - Christopher Wiley28. ‘Dreadful Insanity’: Jane Austen and Musical Performance - Regula Hohl Trillini29. Music, Passion and Parole in Eighteenth-Century French Philosophy and Fiction - Tili Boon Cuillé

Music, Poetry and Song30. Shelley’s Musical Gifts - Gillen D’Arcy Wood31. Performative Enactment vs Experiential Embodiment: Goethe Settings by Zelter, Reichardt and Schubert - Marshall Brown32. The Musical Poetry of the Graveyard - Annette Richards33. Of Mathematics, Marrow-Bones and Marriage: Eighteenth-Century Convivial Song - Christopher Price

Part IV: Literature and Music in the Nineteenth Century

Introduction - Delia da Sousa Correa34. Music and the Rise of Narrative - Lawrence Kramer

Opera35. From English Literature to Italian Opera: A Tangled Web of Translation - Denise P. Gallo36. James, Argento and The Aspern Papers: ‘Orpheus and the Maenads’ - Michael Halliwell37. Opera in Nineteenth-Century Italian Fiction: Reading ‘Senso’ - Cormac Newark

Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Music38. Stendhal at La Scala: The Birth of Musical Fandom - Gillen D’Arcy Wood39. George Eliot, Schubert and the Cosmopolitan Music of Daniel Deronda - Delia da Sousa Correa40. Music in Thomas Hardy’s Fiction: ‘You Must Not Think Me a Hard-Hearted Rationalist’ - John Hughes

Music, Poetry and Song41. Music in Romantic and Victorian Poetry - Francis O’Gorman42. The Princess and the Tennysons’ Performance of Childhood - Ewan Jones and Phyllis Weliver43. Tchaikovsky’s Songs: Music as Poetry - Philip Ross Bullock44. Wagner and French Poetry from Nerval to Mallarmé: The Power of Opera Unheard - Peter Dayan

Part V: Literature and Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First CenturiesIntroduction - Stephen Benson

Music and Critical Theory45. Nelson Goodman: An Analytic Approach to Music and Literature Studies - Eric Prieto46. Lyotard, Phenomenology and the Shared Paternity of Literature and Music - Anthony Gritten

Music and Fiction since 190047. Music in Proust: The Evolution of an Idea - Mary Breatnach48. Music in Woolf’s Short Fiction - Emma Sutton49. Listening in to D. H. Lawrence: Music, Body, Feelings - Susan Reid50. E. M. Forster and Music: Listening for the Amateur - Will May51. Beckett, Music and the Ineffable - Eric Prieto52. Jean Rhys and the Politics of Sound - Anna Snaith53. Music in Contemporary Fiction - Christin Hoene

Music, Poetry and Song54. Modernist Poetry and Music: Pound Notes - Adrian Paterson55. Auden’s Imaginary Song - T. F. Coombes56. Ivor Gurney: Embracing and Attacking A. E. Housman - Kate Kennedy57. Music and Contemporary Poetry: Audience, Apology and Silence - Will May

Opera58. Le Cas Debussy: Layers of Resonance from Literature into Music - Richard Langham Smith59. Britten, Austen and Mansfi eld Park - Will May60. Tippett, Eliot and Madame Sosostris - Oliver Soden

Literature, Pop Music and Sound61. Worlds of Sound in Louis MacNeice’s Early Radio Plays: ‘Figure in the Music’ - Claire Davison62. ‘High Fidelity’, ‘Added Value’ and the Aesthetics of Sound Technology in Literary Modernism - Sam Halliday63. Words in Popular Songs - Dai Griffiths64. Notes on Soundtracked Fiction: The Past as Future - Justin St Clair

Coda65. Origins and Destinations: A Future for Literature and Music - Michael L. Klein

Notes on Contributors Editorial Advisory Board Index

What People are Saying About This

author of Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Angela Leighton

This Companion to the two arts of sound provides an invaluable introduction and reference guide to the many complex links between music and literature. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, these essays offer an impressive historical survey of how the two arts resist and rely on each other, as well as more specialised accounts of specific periods and art forms. A treasure trove for scholars and general readers alike.

Editorial Reviews

The Companion marks a milestone in the scholarship on music and literature. [...] It is hoped that the Companion will motivate many other scholars to continue the important work begun here.

Monatshefte - Rolf J. Goebel

This Companion to the two arts of sound provides an invaluable introduction and reference guide to the many complex links between music and literature. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, these essays offer an impressive historical survey of how the two arts resist and rely on each other, as well as more specialised accounts of specific periods and art forms. A treasure trove for scholars and general readers alike.

author of Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Angela Leighton