Reading Time in Music

Temporally Vexed

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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In this book, Sarah Cash examines the intersection of music and temporality in British literature of the long nineteenth century. The sound spaces created at these intersections function as antimimetic resistance to hegemonic structures. Through its temporal multiplicity, music resonates in excess of linear time, revealing a metaphoric soundedness in the text that subverts reader expectation and reveals how seemingly realist nineteenth-century novels transgress the limitations of their classic narratological structures. In even the most apparently "realist" texts, the most extravagant, excessive, and hyperbolic elements exceed the bounds of what we often consider real, disrupting mimetic bias. Cash argues that music offers the most dynamic way to expose this vexed temporality in the text. Through scholarly intervention a disruption of historic classifications show that Victorians are heirs of Romanticism’s musical ideals, including the power of music to penetrate and transform space and time and the permanence of sound as it reverberates beyond human perception. Scholars of nineteenth-century literature, temporality, and gender studies will find this book of particular interest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-03-31
Mått158 x 237 x 20 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666903492

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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.