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Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Carmen Trammell Skaggs
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: LSU Press

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In this captivating work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera -- both the art form and the social institution -- in nineteenth- and early twe
The Great American Songbooks
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: T. Austin Graham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-31 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Great American Songbooks shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts. Austin Graham begins his study of 20th-century t
Walt Whitman in Context
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Pages: 452
Authors: Joanna Levin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provi
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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Authors: Paul Watt
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Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, sc
Cather and Opera
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Pages: 195
Authors: David McKay Powell
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Throughout her fiction, Willa Cather mentioned forty-seven operas. References to opera appear in all but three of her twelve novels and in roughly half of her s