McGuire, Charles: Elgar's Oratorios (Ashgate Books) Hardback

Contents

Contents: Preface; The 19th-century British oratorio; Narrative and the oratorio; The Light of Life and the traditional oratorio; The Dream of Gerontius and operatic narrative; The Apostles and the narrative construction of an epic; The Kingdom and the epic continued; Epilogue: Elgar and the oratorio after The Kingdom; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.