Sounding Bodies : Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature

Sounding Bodies Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Draucker, Shannon (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series
Materias:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Eroticism in literature.
Feminist theory.
Human body in literature.
Music in literature.
Music > Physiological effect.
Queer theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009839132906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Erotic Symphony
  • Acoustical Readings
  • Listening In: Sound, Sensation, and Science in Victorian Studies
  • Reembodying Victorian Sound Studies
  • The Feminist and Queer Uses of Acoustical Science
  • Hearing New Things: New Directions for Music-Literature Studies
  • Music Beyond Metaphor
  • Queering the Concert Hall
  • Good Vibrations: Expanding the Erotic in Victorian Studies
  • Program Notes: Plan of the Book
  • Part One: Sounds and Bodies
  • Chapter One: Hearing, Touching, Feeling Sound: Acoustical Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  • Physical Acoustics
  • Physiological Acoustics
  • "Not Mere Vibrations": Aesthetic Debates
  • Acoustical Science in Victorian Culture
  • Part Two: Genders
  • Chapter Two: Bare Arms and Quivering Nerves: The "Lady Violinist" Novels of Mary Augusta Ward and M. E. Francis
  • The "Lady Violinist" in Victorian Literature
  • "Beyond Her Muscular Power": Female Violinists in Victorian England
  • Brahms in the Blood: Robert Elsmere
  • "Itching" to Be Heard: The Duenna of a Genius
  • Physiological Acoustics and Feminist Politics
  • Chapter Three: Cross-Dressing Violinists and Music/Gender Performance in The Heavenly Twins and The Violin-Player
  • "The Difference That Dress Makes": Contingent Virtuosity in The Heavenly Twins
  • "A Real Genius": Triumphant Musicality in The Violin-Player
  • "Without Regard to Sex"
  • Part Three: Sexualities
  • Chapter Four: Dangerous Vibrations: Musical Rape in George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
  • "In Spite of Her Resistance": The Mill on the Floss
  • "Excruciating Spasms": Desperate Remedies and "The Fiddler of the Reels"
  • Chapter Five: Orgasm in the Orchestra Box: Teleny's Musical Pornography
  • "Natural Tastes": Teleny's Defense of Same-Sex Desire
  • Aural Sex: Teleny's Queer Erotics
  • Part Four: Intimacies
  • Chapter Six: Fiddle Feelings: Human-Instrument Intimacies in Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy
  • "Corporeal Co-Dependence": Human-Instrument Relations in Victorian Acoustical Science
  • Sympathetic Kinship: George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss
  • Cello Friendship: Anthony Trollope's The Warden
  • Passioned Pulsings: Thomas Hardy's "Haunting Fingers"
  • Self-Playing Instruments
  • Chapter Seven: Musical Hauntings and Otherworldly Erotics in The Lost Stradivarius and "A Wicked Voice"
  • "Acoustical Affinities": The Lost Stradivarius
  • The Murmur of the Castrato: "A Wicked Voice"
  • Is the Concert Hall Haunted?
  • Coda: Re-vitalizing Contemporary Classical Music
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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