George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture

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Acknowledgements
Introduction Concords and Discords, Cadences and Cries Music, Science, Literature: The Large Music of Reasonable Speech Music and the Woman Question: The Minister of Domestic Concord and the Most Sensuous of Accomplishments The Mill on the Floss : A Mind
Conclusion Notes
Bibliography
Index

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George Eliot was passionate about music and her writing is steeped in musical allusion. This book explores musical reference in her work and investigates contexts such as Eliot's friendship with Wagner, the legacy of Romanticism, music's role in scientific theory, and the ambivalent status of female musicality. The book establishes how intensely Eliot's musical allusions are informed by her contemporary culture and offers a fresh view of the experimental writing through which she took literary realism into previously uncharted regions.

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