Figures of the Imagination

Figures of the Imagination
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9781317135319
ISBN-13 : 1317135318
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Figures of the Imagination by : Roger Hansford

This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people’s growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the occult. No mere diversion, fiction was integral to musical culture and together both art forms reveal key intellectual currents that circulated in the early nineteenth-century British home and were shared by many consumers. Roger Hansford explores relationships between music produced in the early 1800s for domestic consumption and the fictional genre of romance, offering a new view of romanticism in British print culture. He surveys romance novels by Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Edward Bulwer and Charles Kingsley in the period 1790–1850, interrogating the ways that music served to create mood and atmosphere, enlivened social scenes and contributed to plot developments. He explores the connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the domestic song literature, treating both types of source and their intersection as examples of material culture. Hansford’s intersectional reading revolves around a series of imaginative figures – including the minstrel, fairies, mermaids, ghosts, and witches, and Christians engaged both in virtue and vice – the identities of which remained consistent as influence passed between the art forms. While romance authors quoted song lyrics and included musical descriptions and characters, their novels recorded and modelled the performance of songs by the middle and upper classes, influencing the work of composers and the actions of performers who read romance fiction.

North Country Poets

North Country Poets
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B116693
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Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis North Country Poets by : William Andrews

The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns

The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns
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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 498
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ISBN-10 : 1570038295
ISBN-13 : 9781570038297
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns by : Clayton Carlyle Tarr

"The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns includes fourteen color and fifty-eight black-and-white illustrations as well as an introduction by G. Ross Roy on the history of the collection. In text and images, the catalogue documents a monumental research collection that serves as an open invitation for further investigations into the life, works, and legacy of Scotland's bard."--BOOK JACKET.