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'The uses of music within fiction are legion, and Gerry Smyth provides a fascinating overview of ways in which writers invoke the musical Examples... are drawn from the 18th century onwards and include some fascinating insights: Smyth's reading of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure as a Wagnerian novel - structured through leitmotifs - is particularly striking.'
- Andrew Blake, Times Higher Education
About the author
GERRY SMYTH is Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has published widely on the literature and music of Britain and Ireland. His previous books include The Novel and the Nation (1997), Space and the Cultural Imagination (2001) and Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music (2005).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Music in Contemporary British Fiction
Book Subtitle: Listening to the Novel
Authors: G. Smyth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57328-4Published: 20 November 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 240
Topics: Music, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature