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From: Sophie Fuller <[log in to unmask]>

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Call for Papers: Music and Victorian Literature

Study Day at the University of Reading, UK  
Saturday 13 May

The investigation of what literature can tell us about musical meaning
and/or music as cultural and social activity is a rapidly growing area of
research for scholars working in both literary studies and musicology. 

This exploratory study day aims to present a broad range of papers
demonstrating the rich possibilities of a variety of approaches towards
the interactions and intersections between music and English literature of
the 19th century. 

Possible topics for papers might include composer reception;
representations of instrumental practice; issues of professionalism and
domesticity; aspects of gender, sexuality, race, religion and class in
relation to music making, musical taste, performance spaces and
situations; musical style as wordless communicant; or issues surrounding
nationalism and Britishness. 

The study day is being organised by Sophie Fuller (Reading), Nicky Losseff
(York) and Christopher Wilson (Reading). Please send proposals for
20-minute papers to Sophie Fuller ([log in to unmask] or Department
of Music, University of Reading, 35 Upper Redlands Rd, Reading RG1 5JE) by
21 February 2000. 

Further details of the study day will be made available in due course.


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