Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism

Contents

• Part I . Intellectual History:
• 1. Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones;
• 2. The passion of liberalism;
• 3. The Victorian salon;
• 4. Music and the Gladstone salon;
• Part II . Musical and Literary Case Studies:
• 5. Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music;
• 6. '... there ought to be some melody in poetry': Tennyson's salon readings;
• 7. '... musical, I see!': triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda;
• 8. Conclusion.