George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture

DELIA DA SOUSA CORREA is Lecturer in Literature at The Open University. She has published essays on George Eliot and John Ruskin and is editor of The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Realisms.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Concords and Discords, Cadences and Cries Music, Science, Literature: The Large Music of Reasonable Speech Music and the Woman Question: The Minister of Domestic Concord and the Most Sensuous of Accomplishments The Mill on the Floss : A Mind Susceptible to Music Daniel Deronda : The Other Side of Silence Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

'...beautifully written.' - The Times Literary Supplement 'In George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture, da Sousa Correa takes our understanding of Victorian music and literature to new areas of complexity and depth, areas that, it is humbling to recognize, were just one part of Eliot's extraordinary cultural repertoire.' - Women: A Cultural Review