Music in Contemporary British Fiction

Listening to the Novel

• Author(s): Gerry Smyth,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 240
• ISBN_10: 0230573282
  ISBN_13: 9780230573284
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Literary Collections / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / European / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Music / General , Music / History & Criticism , Music / Philosophy & Social Aspects , Science / General ,

Description:... Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the role played by music in the canon of British fiction since the eighteenth century.