A fascinating study of the role that music played in Jane Austen's life.
Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen ‘played and sang’. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her novels to illuminate characters’ personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.
Delving into the Austen family music books, Gillian Dooley discovers a treasure trove of evidence that unveils a previously underappreciated facet of Austen's world. She unravels the author’s musical connections with family and friends, revealing the intricate ties between her fiction and the melodies she performed.
With these revelations, Austen's musical legacy comes to life, granting us a deeper understanding of her artistic prowess and the influences that shaped her literary masterpieces. -- .
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 -- .
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