Weliver, Phyllis: Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860–1900 (Ashgate Books) Hardback

Contents

Contents: Introduction; Musical women in England, 1860-1900; Harmony and discord in the self: music, mesmerism and mental science; Female power in sensation fiction; Dissonance and fugue in The Mystery of Edwin Drood; George Eliot: melody, evolution and aesthetics; Recapitulation and natural selection in The Mill on the Floss; Sexual selection and music: Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda; Conclusion: Trilby; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.