Catherine Jones
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748684618
- eISBN:
- 9781474406369
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748684618.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This book explores the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. It focuses on the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's ...
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This book explores the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. It focuses on the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures with primary attention to Europe and North America. Catherine Jones begins by examining attitudes to music and its performance of leading figures of the American Enlightenment and Revolution, notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, and the attempts of Francis Hopkinson and others to harness the Orphean power of music so that it should become a progressive force in the creation of a new society. She argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music.Less
This book explores the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. It focuses on the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures with primary attention to Europe and North America. Catherine Jones begins by examining attitudes to music and its performance of leading figures of the American Enlightenment and Revolution, notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, and the attempts of Francis Hopkinson and others to harness the Orphean power of music so that it should become a progressive force in the creation of a new society. She argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music.
