This volume positions music as a charged site of cultural struggle, promoted concurrently as a transcendent corrective to social ills and as a subversive cause of those ills ...

Contextualizing British short fiction within the broader context of Romantic-era print culture, Tim Killick argues that authors such as Washington Irving, Mary Russell Mitford ...

The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-century culture and society ...

Chapter headings in this work include: Opening the Fan of Time; Paganism Revived?; Stories of Today; The Unmanned Fertility Figure; Killing the God; and A Bizarre Farewell to ...