Provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuries
Bringing together sixty-five newly commissioned original chapters by literary specialists and musicologists, this book presents the most recent interdisciplinary research into literature and music. In five parts, the chapters cover the Middle Ages to the present.
The volume introduction and methodology chapters define key concepts for investigating the interdependence of these two art forms and a concluding chapter looks to the future of this interdisciplinary field. An editorial introduction to each historical part explains the main features of the relationships between literature and music in the period and outlines recent developments in scholarship. Contributions represent a multiplicity of approaches: theoretical, contextual and close reading. Case studies reach beyond literature and music to engage with related fields including philosophy, history of science, theatre, broadcast media and popular culture.

This trailblazing companion charts and extends the work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.

Delia da Sousa Correa is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University.

List of Illustrations;
List of Tables;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction, Delia da Sousa Correa;
1. Intertextuality, Topic Theory and the Open Text, Michael L. Klein;
2. Secrets, Technology and Musical Narrative: Remarks on Method, Lawrence Kramer;
3. Derrida, de Man, Barthes and Music as the Soul of Writing, Peter Dayan;
Part I: Literature and Music before 1500;
Introduction, Ardis Butterfield, Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach;
4. Music and the Book: The Textualisation of Music and the Musicalisation of Text, Helen Deeming;
5. Liturgical Music and Drama, Nils Holger Petersen;
6. Intermedial Texts, Maureen Boulton;
7. Citation and Quotation, Jennifer Saltzstein;
8. Polytextuality, Suzannah Clark and Elizabeth Eva Leach;
9. Courtly Subjectivities, Helen J. Swift and Anne Stone;
10. Gender: The Art and Hermeneutics of (In)differentiation, Elizabeth Eva Leach and Nicolette Zeeman;
Part II: Literature and Music in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries;
Introduction, Ros King;
11. Music and the Literature of Science in Seventeenth-Century England, Penelope Gouk;
12. The 'Sister' Arts of Music and Poetry in Early Modern England, Helen Wilcox;
Metrical Forms and Rhythmic Effects: Music, Poetry and Song;
13. The Music of Narrative Poetry: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, David Fuller;
14. Against 'the Music of Poetry' , Robert Stagg;
15. Speaking the Song: Music, Language and Emotion in Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Erin Minear;
Performers and Performance;
16. Shakespeare's Musicians: Status and Hierarchy, B. J. Sokol;
17. Best-Selling Ballads in Seventeenth-Century England, Christopher Marsh;
18. Italian Performance Practices in Seventeenth-Century English Song, Elizabeth Kenny;
Theatre Music and Opera;
19. From Tragicomedy to Opera? John Marston's Antonio and Mellida, Ros King;
20. Learning to Lament: Opera and the Gendering of Emotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Wendy Heller;
21. All-Sung English Opera Experiments in the Seventeenth Century, Andrew Pinnock;
Part III: Literature and Music in the Eighteenth Century;
Introduction, Suzanne Aspden;
22. Thomas Arne and 'Inferior' English Opera, Suzanne Aspen;
23. Phaedra and Fausta: Female Transgression and Punishment in Ancient and Early Modern Plays, Reinhard Strohm;
24. 'When Farce and when Musick can eke out a Play': Ballad Opera and Theatre's Commerce, Berta Joncus;
Oratorio;
25. National Aspiration: Samson Agonistes Transformed in Handel's Samson, Ruth Smith;
26. Maurice Greene and the English Church Music Tradition, Matthew Gardner;
Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Music;
27. The Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Music: Virtuous Performers and Well-Mannered Listeners , Christopher Wiley;
28. 'Dreadful Insanity': Jane Austen and Musical Performance, Regula Hohl Trillini;
29. Music, Passion and Parole in Eighteenth-Century French Philosophy and Fiction, Tili Boon Cuillé;
Music, Poetry and Song;
30. Shelley's Musical Gifts, Gillen D'Arcy Wood;
31. Performative Enactment vs Experiential Embodiment: Goethe Settings by Zelter, Reichardt and Schubert, Marshall Brown;
32. The Musical Poetry of the Graveyard, Annette Richards;
33. Of Mathematics, Marrow-Bones and Marriage: Eighteenth-Century Convivial Song, Christopher Price;
Part IV: Literature and Music in the Nineteenth Century;
62. 'High Fidelity', 'Added Value' and the Aesthetics of Sound Technology in Literary Modernism, Sam Halliday;
63. Words in Popular Songs, Dai Griffiths;
64. Notes on Soundtracked Fiction: The Past as Future, Justin St Clair;
Coda
65. Origins and Destinations: A Future for Literature and Music, Michael L. Klein; Notes on Contributors; Editorial Advisory Board; Index.