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Mary Gladstone and the Victorian salon :

1107184800

9781107184800

9781316886953

Mary Gladstone and the Victorian salon :

[Book]

music, literature, liberalism /

Phyllis Weliver (Saint Louis University).

New York, NY :

Cambridge University Press,

2017.

©2017

xviii, 305 pages :

illustrations ;

26 cm

New perspectives in music history and criticism

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.

Part I. Intellectual history: Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones -- The passion of liberalism -- The Victorian salon -- Music and the Gladstone salon -- Part II. Musical and literary case studies: Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music -- "There ought to be some melody in poetry" : Tennyson's salon readings --"Musical, I see!" : triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda -- Conclusion.

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"The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving prime ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology and aesthetic democracy"--

Mary Gladstone and the Victorian salon.

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Drew, Mary Gladstone,1847-1927.

Eliot, George,1819-1880-- Criticism and interpretation.

Gladstone, W. E., (William Ewart),1809-1898-- Family.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,1809-1892-- Criticism and interpretation.

Drew, Mary Gladstone, 1847-1927

Drew, Mary Gladstone,1847-1927

Eliot, George,1819-1880

Gladstone, W. E., (William Ewart),1809-1898

Gladstone, William Ewart, 1809-1898

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,1809-1892

Music-- Great Britain-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

Musicians-- Great Britain, Biography.

Private secretaries-- Great Britain, Biography.

Salons-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Socialites-- Great Britain, Biography.

Women-- Political activity-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Families.

Geistesleben

Intellectual life.

Kultur

MUSIC-- General.

Music.

Musicians.

Musik

Politik

Private secretaries.

Salon

Salons.

Socialites.

Women-- Political activity.

Great Britain, Intellectual life, 19th century.

Great Britain.

Großbritannien

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