This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestsellin
This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestsellin
By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unlea
In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant ef
The female performer with a public voice constitutes a remarkably vibrant theme in British and American narratives of the long nineteenth century. The tension b