D.H. Lawrence, Music and Modernism (Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature)

D.H. Lawrence, Music and Modernism (Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature)

by SusanReid (Author)

Synopsis

This first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence's lifelong engagement with music surveys his extensive musical interests and how these permeate his writing, while also situating Lawrence within a growing body of work on music and modernism. A twin focus considers the music that shaped Lawrence's novels and poetry, as well as contemporary developments in music that parallel his quest for new forms of expression. Comparisons are made with the music of Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Wagner, and British composers, including Bax, Holst and Vaughan Williams, and with the musical writings of Forster, Hardy, Hueffer (Ford), Nietzsche and Pound. Above all, by exploring Lawrence and music in historical context, this study aims to open up new areas for study and a place for Lawrence within the field of music and modernism.


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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 25 Feb 2019

ISBN 10: 3030049981
ISBN 13: 9783030049980

Author Bio

Susan Reid is the editor of the Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, co-editor of the Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts (under contract, 2020) and Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011), and author of numerous articles and book chapters on Lawrence and other modernist writers.