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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781108989541
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Book description

Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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‘… offers a crucial contribution to conversations in both Victorian studies and queer musicology about the relationships among aesthetics, erotics, embodiment, and subjectivity. Riddell invites readers in both fields to reimagine music not as a utopian source of identity affirmation, but rather as a “startlingly antihumanist” force that fosters a range of complex, difficult, and often disturbing affects and experiences (51).’

Shannon Draucker Source: Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies

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Contents

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  • Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle
    pp i-i
  • Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Series page
    pp ii-ii
  • Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Epigraph
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-vii
  • Acknowledgements
    pp viii-x
  • Introduction
    pp 1-19
  • Chapter 1 - Music, Emotion and the Homosexual Subject
    pp 20-51
  • Chapter 2 - Flesh: Music, Masochism, Queerness
    pp 52-98
  • Chapter 3 - Voice: Disembodiment and Desire
    pp 99-137
  • Chapter 4 - Touch: Transmission, Contact, Connection
    pp 138-174
  • Chapter 5 - Time: Backward Listening
    pp 175-198
  • Coda
    pp 199-202
  • Notes
    pp 203-246
  • Bibliography
    pp 247-274
  • Index
    pp 275-277
  • Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture - Series page
    pp 278-286

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