Music in Jane Austen's Emma
Jane Austen played the piano every morning before the rest of the family got up - both for her own pleasure and probably also as an aid to meditation and mental focus. No one has yet fully explored the significance of music to her as a writer, but the use of music in her novels - as with all other a...
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Cambridge University Press
2016
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| Online-ссылка: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102230 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6298-3896 |
| Итог: | Jane Austen played the piano every morning before the rest of the family got up - both for her own pleasure and probably also as an aid to meditation and mental focus. No one has yet fully explored the significance of music to her as a writer, but the use of music in her novels - as with all other aspects of daily life - is hardly casual. In perhaps no other novel is this so true as in Emma, in which music is used in a sophisticated manner to evoke class and gender status and as a pointer to moral character. |
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