ABSTRACT
Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses—the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature—and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|91 pages
Questioning the Universal
chapter 3|12 pages
‘That is the music which makes men mad'
part II|94 pages
Opera and Literature
chapter 10|14 pages
Trouble in Paradise
chapter 15|14 pages
‘Tendernesses of an England Long Past'
part III|132 pages
Musical Form, Literary Form
part IV|111 pages
Popular Music and Literature