Emma Sutton

Virginia Woolf and Classical Music

Politics, Aesthetics, Form

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers an investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. The author discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical repertoire and to composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9781474401432
• ISBN-10: 1474401430
• Artikelnr.: 42105054

Autorenporträt

Emma Sutton is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her publications include Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s (Oxford UP, 2002), and Opera and the Novel (co-edited with Michael Downes, 2012). She is a contributor to Cambridge UP's forthcoming Wagner Encyclopedia, is editing The Voyage Out for their scholarly edition of Woolf's work and has written widely and broadcast on music and literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Editions Used in the Text
Introduction
1. On Not Writing Opera
2. Killing the Pianist in the House
3. Death in Effigy
4. Fugues, Flights & Free Association
5. What it Really Means to be English
6. Only Suggest
Bibliography
Index.