Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-286) and index
Musical Identities. The voice, the breath and the soul : song and poverty in Thyrza, Mary Barton, Alton Locke and A child of the Jago / Nicky Losseff -- Cribbed, cabin'd, and confined' : female musical creativity in Victorian fiction / Sophie Fuller -- Music, crowd control and the female performer in Trilby / Phyllis Weliver
Construction of musical meaning. The 'perniciously homosexual art' : music and homoerotic desire in The picture of Dorian Gray and other fin-de-siècle fiction / Joe Law -- 'You might have called it beauty or poetry or passion just as well as music' : Gertrude Hudson's fictional fantasias / Charlotte Purkis -- The music master and 'the Jew' in Victorian writing : Thomas Carlyle, Richard Wagner, George Eliot and George Du Maurier / Jonathan Taylor -- Thomas Carlyle and the grain of the voice / Karen Tongson
Genre and musicalities. The piano's progress : the piano in play in the Victorian novel / Jodi Lustig -- Female performances : melodramatic music conventions and The woman in white / Laura Vorachek -- Indecent musical displays : feminizing the pastoral in Eliot's The mill on the floss / Alisa Clapp-Itnyre -- 'Singing like a musical box' : musical detection and novelistic tradition / Irene Morra
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English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism