Reading Time in Music

Sarah Cash is lecturer in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Miami.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Out of Time: Music as Temporal Excess in Thomas De Quincey’s “Dream Fugue.”Chapter 2: Lamenting Ruin: Irish Musical Mourning in Sydney Owenson’s Wild Irish Girl. Chapter 3: Broken Boundaries: Disruptive Sound Spaces in William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.Chapter 4: A Singing Call: Death and Music Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend. Chapter 5: Distant Music: Temporal Disruption in James Joyce’s Dubliners Conclusion: Coda: Re-imaging Ourselves in TimeReferencesIndex

This ambitious and original monograph offers a valuable contribution to the current reappraisal of literary periodization in the “long nineteenth century” through its focus on the relationship between gender and music across the genres of poetry and fiction. Exploring “non-linear music,” Sarah Cash participates in the scholarly movement to connect representations of gender with the subversion of Enlightenment binaries in nineteenth-century literature. In remarkably lucid prose, Cash informs this literary study with a coherent balance of theoretical models in musicology, literature, gender studies, and philosophy.