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Mary Gladstone and the Victorian salon : music, literature, liberalism / Phyllis Weliver

Weliver, Phyllis, 1968- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2017

xviii, 305 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 26 cm

Englisch

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 273-294. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

978-1-107-18480-0 ( : hardback); 978-1-316-63614-5 (paperback)

2017038712

OCoLC: 1022267926     

OCoLC: 1022267926 (aus SWB)     

LR 57715  | LR 57725      Ähnliche Literatur

DA565.D7

941.081092 ; 306.4842

Basisklassifikation: 15.64 (Großbritannien; Irland) <Geschichte> ; 15.07 (Kulturgeschichte)

* Drew, Mary Gladstone [1847-1927] ; Großbritannien ; Salon ; Musikleben ; Geistesleben ; Geschichte     Zum Register

* Drew, Mary Gladstone [1847-1927]      Zum Register

*Großbritannien ; Salon ; Kultur ; Politik ; Musik ; Geschichte      Zum Register

*Royal College of Music (London) ; Geschichte      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Drew, Mary Gladstone -- 1847-1927 ; Gladstone, W. E -- (William Ewart) -- 1809-1898 -- Family ; Socialites -- Great Britain -- Biography ; Musicians -- Great Britain -- Biography ; Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Salons -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism ; Private secretaries -- Great Britain -- Biography ; Drew, Mary Gladstone 1847-1927 ; Music -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century -- Great Britain ; Liberalism -- History -- 19th century -- Great Britain ; Salons -- History -- 19th century -- England -- London ; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century ; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901

"The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving prime ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology and aesthetic democracy"--

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Machine generated contents note: Part I. Intellectual History: 1. Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones; 2. The passion of liberalism; 3. The Victorian salon; 4. Music and the Gladstone salon; Part II. Musical and Literary Case Studies: 5. Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music; 6. '... there ought to be some melody in poetry': Tennyson's salon readings; 7. '... musical, I see!': triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda; 8. Conclusion