This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestsellin

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant ef

Provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuriesOffers research essays by literary specialists and musicologists t

This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world

This book examines the political resonances of E. M. Forster's representations of music, offering readings of canonical and overlooked works. It reveals music's