Dooley She played and sang

Jane Austen and music
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7011-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influences that shaped her literary masterpieces.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dooley, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 The Jane Austen music manuscripts
2 Jane Austen’s musical relationships
3 Jane Austen and the music of the French Revolution
4 ‘These happy effects on the character of the British sailor’: family life in sea songs of the late Georgian period
5 Jane Austen, Thomas Arne and Georgian musical theatre
6 Jane Austen and British song
7 Juvenile songs and lessons: music culture in Jane Austen’s teenage years
8 Marianne and Willoughby, Lucy and Colin: betrayal, suffering, death and the poetic image
Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Flinders University. She has published and presented internationally on Jane Austen, and as a singer she has curated programmes of music from Austen’s personal collection since 2007. She has appeared on Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s The Book Show and The Minefield as an expert on Austen. Her most recent books are Matthew Flinders: The Man behind the Map and Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music, Sounds, and Silences (both 2022).