Sounding Bodies

Sounding Bodies

Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature

Draucker, Shannon

State University of New York Press

01/2025

294

Mole

9781438498409

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction The Erotic Symphony

Part One: Sounds and Bodies

1. Hearing, Touching, Feeling Sound: Acoustical Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Part Two: Genders

2. Bare Arms and Quivering Nerves: The "Lady Violinist" Novels of Mary Augusta Ward and M. E. Francis

3.Cross-Dressing Violinists and Music/Gender Performance in The Heavenly Twins and The Violin-Player

Part Three: Sexualities

4. Dangerous Vibrations: Musical Rape in George Eliot and Thomas Hardy

5. Orgasm in the Orchestra Box: Teleny's Musical Pornography

Part Four: Intimacies

6. Fiddle Feelings: Human-Instrument Intimacies in Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy

7. Musical Hauntings and Otherworldly Erotics in The Lost Stradivarius and "A Wicked Voice"

Coda Re-vitalizing Contemporary Classical Music

Notes
Bibliography
Index