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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| description | 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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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1022302022-10-01T14:46:42Z Music in Jane Austen's Emma Perry, Ruth Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Literature Section Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Perry, Ruth Perry, Ruth 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. 2016-04-08T17:46:49Z 2016-04-08T17:46:49Z 2015-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem 9781107082632 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102230 Perry, Ruth. "Music in Jane Austen's Emma." in Sabor, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Emma. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6298-3896 en_US http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-1700-1830/cambridge-companion-emma?format=HB&isbn=9781107082632 Cambridge Companion to Emma Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Cambridge University Press Perry via Mark Szarko |
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