This book examines the intersection of music and temporality in British literature of the long nineteenth century, arguing the temporal multiplicity of music as the most dynamic way to subvert mimetic bias. Temporally vexed sound spaces rupture the narrative, transgressing the hegemonic structures to which it is subject.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Out of Time: Music as Temporal Excess in Thomas De Quincey's "Dream Fugue."
Chapter 2: Lamenting Ruin: Irish Musical Mourning in Sydney Owenson's Wild Irish Girl.
Chapter 3: Broken Boundaries: Disruptive Sound Spaces in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
Chapter 4: A Singing Call: Death and Music Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend.
Chapter 5: Distant Music: Temporal Disruption in James Joyce's Dubliners
Conclusion: Coda: Re-imaging Ourselves in Time
References
Index
