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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angelic airs/subversive songs: Music as cultural discourse in Victorian literature and society
Abstract
dc:description"This study extends the critical discussion on nineteenth-century aesthetics to include music, a rarely studied yet vital Victorian artform. I argue that Victorians concurrently idealized music as a transcendent corrective to social ills and feared it as a subversive context for these ills. In Chapter One, I examine Victorian constructions of music to promote patriotism, Christianity, culture, and domestic harmony, and suggest how often these goals were undermined by political tensions in song texts or ""immoral sensuality"" promoted by the ""spectacle"" of live music-making. Chapter Two explores representations of music by a variety of Victorian novelists and poets."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Clapp, Alisa Marie
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Anderson, Amanda
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1996 Clapp, Alisa Marie
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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9780591087444
AAI9702482
(UMI)AAI9702482 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21551