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British Music and Literary Context: artistic connections in the long nineteenth century

This 320-page interdisciplinary monograph represents the culmination of several years’ work on connections between British music and literature around the turn of the twentieth century. Encompassing a plethora of composers and literary figures, the book offers new interpretations of musical works whose text-paratext relationship is particularly complex or ambiguous, suggesting that musical settings and representations of literary texts can, in the context of literary scholarship, be viewed as critical ‘readings’ of those texts. The interdisciplinary models offered in five case studies also include the use of extensive primary sources to highlight the particular complexities of the Parry-Bridges creative process.