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Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism

English

By (author): Nathan Waddell

How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts, charting the many different ways in which poetry and prose resemble Beethoven's compositions. This book takes a different approach. It focuses on how early twentieth-century writers--chief among them E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham Lewis, Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf--profited from the representational conventions associated in the nineteenth century and beyond with Beethovenian culture. The emphasis of Moonlighting falls for the most part on how modernist writers made use of Beethovenian legend. It is concerned neither with formal similarities between Beethoven's music and modernist writing nor with the music of Beethoven per se, but with certain ways of understanding Beethoven's music which had long before 1900 taken shape as habit, myth, cliché, and fantasy, and with the influence they had on experimental writing up to 1930. Moonlighting suggests that the modernists drew knowingly and creatively on the conventional. It proposes that many of the most experimental works of modernist literature were shaped by a knowing reliance on Beethovenian consensus; in short, that the literary modernists knew Beethovenian legend when they saw it, and that they were eager to use it. See more
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  • Weight: 578g
  • Dimensions: 161 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jul 2019
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780198816706

About Nathan Waddell

Nathan Waddell is a Senior Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century and Modernist Literature in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Modern John Buchan (2009) and Modernist Nowheres: Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing 1900-1920 (2012) and a co-editor of several volumes of scholarly essays including: Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (2011); Utopianism Modernism and Literature in the Twentieth Century (2013); John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (2013); Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide (2015); and 'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies (2016).

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