The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation

This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.

• | Author: P. Weliver
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2006
• | Number of Pages: 245 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1403999945
• | ISBN-13: 9781403999948