This pioneering companion offers over 60 new and original research essays, representing the most recent interdisciplinary research into literature and music. In five sections, the chapters cover relationships between literature and music from the Middle Ages to the present. An editorial introduction to each section explains the main features of the relation between literature and music in the period and outlines key recent developments in the study of literature and music. The essays both chart developments in a rapidly expanding and vigorous field and make original contributions to it. Each essay is newly commissioned for this volume from international scholars and gives readers an overview of previously unavailable breadth and coherence.0.