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  • Formatas: Hardback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 235x156x23 mm, weight: 472 g, 8 bw illus., 7 color illus., 1 table
  • Serija: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Dec-2023
  • Leidėjas: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1684485169
  • ISBN-13: 9781684485161
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 235x156x23 mm, weight: 472 g, 8 bw illus., 7 color illus., 1 table
  • Serija: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Dec-2023
  • Leidėjas: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1684485169
  • ISBN-13: 9781684485161
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"Highlighting women's central role in the performance, composition, reception, and representation of music, Women and Music in the Age of Austen analyzes their formative and lasting effect upon Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from the fields of musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the categories that populate conventional histories of Austen's time and marginalize the experience of women: dismantling the divisions between professional and amateur musicians, public and domestic sites of musical production, and performers and composers of music, the contributors reveal how women's widespread involvement in the Georgian musical scene allowed for their self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. This volume's breadth of focus advances our understanding of a period that witnessed a flourishing of music, much of it brought to life by female hands and voices"--

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights women’s central role in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes their formative and lasting effect upon Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays reveals how music allowed for women’s self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality.

 


Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience from Austen’s time. Contesting the distinctions between professional and amateur musicians, public and domestic sites of musical production, and performers and composers of music, the contributors reveal how women’s widespread involvement in the Georgian musical scene allowed for self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. This volume’s breadth of focus advances our understanding of a period that witnessed a musical flourishing, much of it animated by female hands and voices.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.


 

Recenzijos

Women and Music in the Age of Austen offers an expansive, lively, colourful view of the gendered musical practices of the eighteenth century and the Romantic period. These essays enrich our knowledge of the musical world of Jane Austen and Frances Burney while shining a spotlight on little-known female performers, critics, composers, consumers, collectors, fans, and musical entrepreneurs of the preceding decades. Angela Esterhammer, author of Print and Performance in the 1820s: Improvisation, Speculation, Identity

"Throughout this collection, we see women moving across the continuum and the degrees of resistance they encountered: from practicing alone before breakfast, as we know Austen did, through playing as part of a large social event that might also include performances by professional musicians, to appearing on the concert and opera stage and supporting themselves professionally...The scholarly endnotes for each essay and the bibliography provide many fascinating paths for those who wish to explore further."



Jane Austen Society of North America News

Music was important to Jane Austen, as her novels and letters attest, and women played a hitherto undervalued part in the musical world of her time. This sparkling and substantial collection of interdisciplinary essays illuminates Austens fiction and her age in many original and surprising ways. Peter Sabor, coeditor of Jane Austen's Manuscript Works

Finding inspiration in a broad range of sources, the volume reflects on women and their musical activities in Georgian England. A focus on Jane Austen and her novels moves in and out of the picture, amplified and receding against historical figures known and unknown. Through these essays by musically-informed literary scholars and musicologists, readers get a sense of the possibilities and desires of women engaged with music over a historical period that brackets the life of our beloved Jane. Maribeth Clark, coeditor of Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives

"Extends far beyond Jane Austen in well-presented, insightful essays. . . . Highly recommended." Choice

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Table

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: It was all in harmony: Musical Women in Austens Culture

Linda Zionkowski with Miriam F. Hart

Part I: Representing the Female Performer

Chapter 1: A Musical Room of Her Own: Musical Spaces in Jane Austens
Novels

Pierre Dubois

Chapter 2: Prima la musica: Gentry Daughters at Play in Town, Country, and
Continent, 1815-1825

Kelly M. McDonald

Chapter 3: Stage Fright: Female Musicians Crossing Musical Borders in
Thicknesses The School for Fashion and Burneys The Wanderer

Danielle Grover

Part II: Women and the Market in Music

Chapter 4: Women on the Title Page: Celebrity Endorsement of Musical Scores

Penelope Cave

Chapter 5: The Ladys Choice: Women and the Purchase of Music through
Subscription

Simon D. I. Fleming

Chapter 6: Female Musical Entrepreneurship in the Eighteenth Century

Alison C. DeSimone

Part III: Women as Critics and Fans

Chapter 7: Women as Quiet Critics

Jane Girdham

Chapter 8: Femininity and Foreignness in George Colmans Farce, The Musical
Lady

Leslie Ritchie

Chapter 9: Georgian Fangirls: Women and Castrati in Eighteenth-Century
London

Jeffrey A. Nigro

Part IV: Women and the Bardic Tradition

Chapter 10: Anna Gordon and the Ballad Collectors

Ruth Perry

Chapter 11: Antiquaries, Female Harpists, and the Survival of the Bardic
Tradition

Devon R. Nelson

Part V: Revisiting the Age of Austen

Chapter 12: That Ecstatic Delight: Gender and Performance in Adaptations
of Sense and Sensibility

Gayle Magee

Chapter 13: Heres harmony!: Music and Gender in Kirke Mechems Pride &
Prejudice (2019) and Jonathan Doves Mansfield Park (2011)

Juliette Wells

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

 
LINDA ZIONKOWSKI is the Samuel and Susan Crowl Professor of Literature at Ohio University in Athens. She is the author of Mens Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 16601784 and Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Burney, Austen and coeditor of The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England.

MIRIAM F. HART received her PhD at Ohio University in Athens after twenty years of touring as a singer, recording with the Allman Brothers as well as with her group, The Local Girls. She has performed at the White House, on A Prairie Home Companion, and at numerous musical festivals and venues across the United States. Her dissertation included the first complete photographic archiving of Austens songbooks.