Romanticism and music culture in Britain, 1770-1840 : virtue and virtuosity / Gillen D'Arcy Wood.
Romanticism and music culture in Britain, 1770-1840 : virtue and virtuosity / Gillen D'Arcy Wood.
Romanticism and music culture in Britain, 1770-1840 : virtue and virtuosity / Gillen D'Arcy Wood.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N780.082/1
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English
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xi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : virtuosophobia -- Seward's Handelomania -- The Burney baroque -- Wordsworth castrato -- Cockney Mozart -- Austen's accomplishment -- The Byron of the piano -- Coda : the mechanical nightingale.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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England
Date Published
2010.
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"Music was central to everyday life and expression in late Georgian Britain, and this is the first interdisciplinary study of its impact on Romantic literature. Focussing on the public fascination with virtuoso performance, Gillen D'Arcy Wood documents a struggle between sober "literary" virtue and luxurious, effeminate virtuosity that staged deep...
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Romanticism and music culture in Britain, 1770-1840 : virtue and virtuosity / Gillen D'Arcy Wood.
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N780.082/1
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74VM0W77bgp3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM0W77bgp3
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052111733X (hardback)
9780521117333 (hardback)
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780.082
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991001788189702626
