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    Women and Music in the Age of Austen

    Linda Zionkowski (Edited by), Miriam F. Hart (With), Pierre DuBois (Contributions by), Kelly M. McDonald (Contributions by), Danielle Grover (Contributions by), Penelope Cave (Contributions by), Simon Fleming (Contributions by), Alison C. DeSimone (Contributions by), Jane Girdham (Contributions by), Leslie Ritchie (Contributions by), Jeffrey A. Nigro (Contributions by), Ruth Perry (Contributions by), Devon R. Nelson (Contributions by), Gayle Magee (Contributions by), Juliette Wells (Contributions by)

    9781684485161

    Hardback, published 15 December 2023

    272 pages, 8 bw illus., 7 color illus., 1 table
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.472 kg

    "Women and Music in the Age of Austen offers an expansive, lively, colourful view of the gendered musical practices of the eighteenth century and the Romantic period. These essays enrich our knowledge of the musical world of Jane Austen and Frances Burney while shining a spotlight on little-known female performers, critics, composers, consumers, collectors, fans, and musical entrepreneurs of the preceding decades."— Angela Esterhammer, author of Print and Performance in the 1820s: Improvisation, Speculation, Identity

    "Throughout this collection, we see women moving across the continuum and the degrees of resistance they encountered: from practicing alone before breakfast, as we know Austen did, through playing as part of a large social event that might also include performances by professional musicians, to appearing on the concert and opera stage and supporting themselves professionally...The scholarly endnotes for each essay and the bibliography provide many fascinating paths for those who wish to explore further."

    — Jane Austen Society of North America News

    "Music was important to Jane Austen, as her novels and letters attest, and women played a hitherto undervalued part in the musical world of her time. This sparkling and substantial collection of interdisciplinary essays illuminates Austen's fiction and her age in many original and surprising ways."— Peter Sabor, coeditor of Jane Austen's Manuscript Works

    "Finding inspiration in a broad range of sources, the volume reflects on women and their musical activities in Georgian England. A focus on Jane Austen and her novels moves in and out of the picture, amplified and receding against historical figures known and unknown. Through these essays by musically-informed literary scholars and musicologists, readers get a sense of the possibilities and desires of women engaged with music over a historical period that brackets the life of our beloved Jane."— Maribeth Clark, coeditor of Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives

    "Extends far beyond Jane Austen in well-presented, insightful essays. . . . Highly recommended."— Choice

    Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women's experience from Austen's time. Contesting the distinctions between professional and amateur musicians, public and domestic sites of musical production, and performers and composers of music, the contributors reveal how women's widespread involvement in the Georgian musical scene allowed for self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. This volume's breadth of focus advances our understanding of a period that witnessed a musical flourishing, much of it animated by female hands and voices.

    Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.


     

    Illustrations
    Table
    Acknowledgments
    Abbreviations
    Introduction: "It was all in harmony": Musical Women in Austen's Culture
    Linda Zionkowski with Miriam F. Hart
    Part I: Representing the Female Performer
    Chapter 1: A Musical Room of Her Own: Musical Spaces in Jane Austen's Novels
    Pierre Dubois
    Chapter 2: "Prima la musica": Gentry Daughters at Play in Town, Country, and Continent, 1815-1825
    Kelly M. McDonald
    Chapter 3: Stage Fright: Female Musicians Crossing Musical Borders in Thicknesse's The School for Fashion and Burney's The Wanderer
    Danielle Grover
    Part II: Women and the Market in Music
    Chapter 4: Women on the Title Page: Celebrity Endorsement of Musical Scores
    Penelope Cave
    Chapter 5: The Lady's Choice: Women and the Purchase of Music through Subscription
    Simon D. I. Fleming
    Chapter 6: Female Musical Entrepreneurship in the Eighteenth Century
    Alison C. DeSimone
    Part III: Women as Critics and Fans
    Chapter 7: Women as Quiet Critics
    Jane Girdham
    Chapter 8: Femininity and Foreignness in George Colman's Farce, The Musical Lady
    Leslie Ritchie
    Chapter 9: Georgian Fangirls: Women and Castrati in Eighteenth-Century London
    Jeffrey A. Nigro
    Part IV: Women and the Bardic Tradition
    Chapter 10: Anna Gordon and the Ballad Collectors
    Ruth Perry
    Chapter 11: Antiquaries, Female Harpists, and the Survival of the Bardic Tradition
    Devon R. Nelson
    Part V: Revisiting the Age of Austen
    Chapter 12: "That Ecstatic Delight": Gender and Performance in Adaptations of Sense and Sensibility
    Gayle Magee
    Chapter 13: "Here's harmony!": Music and Gender in Kirke Mechem's Pride &
    Prejudice     (2019) and Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park (2011)
    Juliette Wells
    Bibliography
    Notes on Contributors
    Index
     
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