Author: M. E. FrancisPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Duenna of a Genius
Author: M. E. FrancisGenetic Studies of Genius ...: The early mental traits of three hundred geniuses, by C. M. Cox, assisted by L. O. Gillan, R. R. Livesay, L. M. Terman
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Author: Current Opinion
Author: Current Literature
Author: The Smart Set
Author: George Jean NathanPublisher:
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Author: Sounding Bodies
Author: Shannon DrauckerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143849839X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Can the concert hall be as erotic as the bedroom? Many Victorian writers believed so. In the mid-nineteenth century, acoustical scientists such as Hermann von Helmholtz and John Tyndall described music as a set of physical vibrations that tickled the ear, excited the nerves, and precipitated muscular convulsions. In turn, writers—from canonical figures such as George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, to New Women novelists like Sarah Grand and Bertha Thomas, to anonymous authors of underground pornography—depicted bodily sensations and experiences in unusually explicit ways. These writers used scenes of music listening and performance to intervene in urgent conversations about gender and sexuality and explore issues of agency, pleasure, violence, desire, and kinship. Sounding Bodies shows how both classical music and Victorian literature, while often considered bastions of conservatism and repression, represented powerful sites for feminist and queer politics.