ISBN:
9781107184800
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9781316636145
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 305 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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26 cm
Series Statement:
New perspectives in music history and criticism
DDC:
941.081092
Keywords:
Drew, Mary Gladstone
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Gladstone, W. E Family
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Drew, Mary Gladstone 1847-1927
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Socialites Biography
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Musicians Biography
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Women Political activity 19th century
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History
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Salons History 19th century
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Music History and criticism 19th century
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Private secretaries Biography
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Music Political aspects
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History
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Liberalism History
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Salons History
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19th century
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England
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London
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Great Britain Intellectual life
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19th century
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Great Britain Politics and government
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1837-1901
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Drew, Mary Gladstone 1847-1927
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Großbritannien
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Salon
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Musikleben
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Geistesleben
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Geschichte
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Drew, Mary Gladstone 1847-1927
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Großbritannien
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Salon
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Kultur
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Politik
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Musik
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Geschichte
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Royal College of Music
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Geschichte
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
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
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 273-294
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