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Baltzer-Lovato, Jennifer.

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Sound, Gender, Individual Will, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Sound, Gender, Individual Will, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Literature./
作者:	Baltzer-Lovato, Jennifer.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
面頁冊數:	222 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-12A(E).
標題:	British & Irish literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10287478
ISBN:	9780355091519

Sound, Gender, Individual Will, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.
Baltzer-Lovato, Jennifer.

Sound, Gender, Individual Will, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 222 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2017.

This dissertation focuses on portrayals of music in 19th century British literature and culture, and the way that it reveals expectations and assumptions regarding gender roles and behavior. Through this study of accounts of musical performance, in sources such as fictional representations, performance reviews in periodicals, as well as diaries and letters, I bring out a series of paradoxical conflicts between certain problematic aspects of gender and social expectations, centering around the figure of the diva as celebrated emblem of transportative, ethereal beauty, and simultaneously reviled as an object of uncomfortably revealing physical display, inspiring fear and paranoia. This diva focus brings to the fore questions of uncertainty regarding the balance of power in gendered relations, as well as the "naturalness" of gendered behavior. I consider the way that the dynamic, commanding presence of the diva that gained prominence late in the 18th century radically changes in the Victorian era. Drawing inspiration from Keats and the Romantic poets, who use the nightingale to symbolize the artistic ideal, Victorian prima donnas end up becoming this nightingale. Jenny Lind's reputation (and wild success) as the "Swedish Nightingale" is the most direct application of this development. Discomforts with the realities that the traditional diva's presence brings into view end up leaking out into other areas, echoing the questions raised by her ghostly absence.

ISBN: 9780355091519Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.

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