The Organist in Victorian Literature

Download or read book The Organist in Victorian Literature written by Iain Quinn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the perception of the organist as the most influential musical figure in Victorian society through the writings of Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning. This will be the first book in the burgeoning area of research into the relationship of music and literature that examines the societal perceptions of a figure central to civic life in Victorian England. This book is deliberately interdisciplinary and will be of special interest to literature scholars and students of Victorian studies, culture, society, religion, gender studies, and music. However, the nature of the text does not require specialist knowledge of music.