Music and Victorian Liberalism

Contents

• 1. Aesthetic liberalism Sarah Collins;
• Part I . Cultivation and/as Control:
• 2. Musical discipline and Victorian liberal reform Erin Johnson-Williams;
• 3. 'Brightening the lives of the people on Sunday': the National Sunday League and liberal attitudes towards concert promotion in Victorian Britain Simon McVeigh;
• 4. Music and mass education: cultivation or control? Rosemary Golding;
• Part II . Dissent, Individualism and Agency:
• 5. A musical presence among liberal thinkers: Eliza Flower and her circle, 1832-1845 Kate Bowan;
• 6. 'That more liberal mode of life': Rosa Newmarch, aestheticism, and queer listening in Victorian and Edwardian Britain Phillip Ross Bullock;
• Part III . Character and Emotion:
• 7. Style, character and revelation in Parry's Fourth Symphony Matthew Riley;
• 8. The Parrys and Prometheus Unbound: actualizing liberalism Phyllis Weliver;
• 9. Liberalism and Victorian musical sympathy Bennett Zon;
• 10. Music and character in the Victorian reception of Wagner: conducting the Philharmonic ca. 1855 Katherine Fry;
• 11. Afterword: liberalism in the round Peter Mandler.