Description
Book SynopsisIncludes essays that engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from Romanticism at the end of the eighteenth century to the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth, a period in which modern evolution of the arts is coupled with a rise in the significance of music as artistic form.
Trade Review"He brings to discussions of music not only an accurate and precise analytical vocabulary, but the performing experience of a first-class cellist. At a time when many scholars claim to be 'interdisciplinary,' . . . it is thrilling to encounter the real thing."
-- James A. Winn * Eighteenth-Century life *
"The thread that runs through the whole—- the understanding of music and poetry as kindred art forms that resist fixity and capture the motion of our thought—- is deeply engaging, and provides us a language to delve further into the music of poetry and the poetry of music."
* Wallace Stevens Journal *
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Introduction: Music and Abstraction
2. Music and Fantasy
3. German Romanticism and Music
4. Negative Poetics: On Skepticism and the Lyric Voice
5. Rethinking the Scale of Literary History
6. Mozart, Bach, and Musical Abjection
7. Moods at Mid-Century: Handel and English Literature, 1740–1760
8. Passion and Love: Anacreontic Song and the Roots of Romantic Lyric
9. Haydn’s Whimsy: Poetry, Sexuality, Repetition
10. Non Giovanni: Mozart with Hegel
Notes
Index
