{"product_id":"women-and-music-in-the-age-of-austen-paperback-softback-9781684485154","title":"Women and Music in the Age of Austen (Paperback \/ softback) 9781684485154","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWomen and Music in the Age of Austen\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLinda 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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684485154\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 8 bw illus., 7 color illus., 1 table\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.064 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWomen and Music in the Age of Austen\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e — Jane Austen Society of North America News\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"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\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"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\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Extends far beyond Jane Austen in well-presented, insightful essays. . . . Highly recommended.\"— Choice\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen and Music in the Age of Austen\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIllustrations\u003cbr\u003e  Table\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: \"It was all in harmony\": Musical Women in Austen's Culture\u003cbr\u003e  Linda Zionkowski with Miriam F. Hart\u003cbr\u003e  Part I: Representing the Female Performer\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1: A Musical Room of Her Own: Musical Spaces in Jane Austen's Novels\u003cbr\u003e  Pierre Dubois\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 2: \"\u003ci\u003ePrima la musica\u003c\/i\u003e\": Gentry Daughters at Play in Town, Country, and Continent, 1815-1825\u003cbr\u003e  Kelly M. McDonald\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3: Stage Fright: Female Musicians Crossing Musical Borders in Thicknesse's \u003ci\u003eThe School for Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e and Burney's \u003ci\u003eThe Wanderer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Danielle Grover\u003cbr\u003e  Part II: Women and the Market in Music\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4: Women on the Title Page: Celebrity Endorsement of Musical Scores\u003cbr\u003e  Penelope Cave\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 5: The Lady's Choice: Women and the Purchase of Music through Subscription\u003cbr\u003e  Simon D. I. Fleming\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 6: Female Musical Entrepreneurship in the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e  Alison C. DeSimone\u003cbr\u003e  Part III: Women as Critics and Fans\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 7: Women as Quiet Critics\u003cbr\u003e  Jane Girdham\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 8: Femininity and Foreignness in George Colman's Farce, \u003ci\u003eThe Musical Lady\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Leslie Ritchie\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 9: Georgian Fangirls: Women and Castrati in Eighteenth-Century London\u003cbr\u003e  Jeffrey A. Nigro\u003cbr\u003e  Part IV: Women and the Bardic Tradition\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 10: Anna Gordon and the Ballad Collectors\u003cbr\u003e  Ruth Perry\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 11: Antiquaries, Female Harpists, and the Survival of the Bardic Tradition\u003cbr\u003e  Devon R. Nelson\u003cbr\u003e  Part V: Revisiting the Age of Austen\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 12: \"That Ecstatic Delight\": Gender and Performance in Adaptations of \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Gayle Magee\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 13: \"Here's harmony!\": Music and Gender in Kirke Mechem's \u003ci\u003ePride \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and Jonathan Dove's \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e (2011)\u003cbr\u003e  Juliette Wells\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681774399768,"sku":"9781684485154","price":40.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/women-and-music-in-the-age-of-austen-paperback-softback-9781684485154","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}