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The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air
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The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air Hardcover - 2019

by Larson, Katherine R

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Oxford University Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8x1x5. Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine, complete with original dustjacket. In new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no bumps, no rubs. Contents are crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.
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  • Title The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air
  • Author Larson, Katherine R
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Date 2019
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 136252
  • ISBN 9780198843788 / 019884378X
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - Social aspects - England - History -, Music - Social aspects - England - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019934015

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From the publisher

Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung. When a reader encounters a song in a sonnet sequence, a romance, and even a masque or a play, however, the tendency is to engage with it as poem rather than as musical performance. Opening up the notion of song from a performance-based perspective The Matter of Song in Early Modern England considers the implications of reading song not simply as lyric text but as an embodied and gendered musical practice.

Animating the traces of song preserved in physiological and philosophical commentaries, singing handbooks, poetic treatises, and literary texts ranging from Mary Sidney Herbert's Psalmes to John Milton's Comus, the book confronts song's ephemerality, its lexical and sonic capriciousness, and its airy substance. These features can resist critical analysis but were vital to song's affective workings in the early modern period. The volume foregrounds the need to attend much more closely to the embodied and musical dimensions of literary production and circulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. It also makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of women's engagement with song as writers and as performers. A companion recording of fourteen songs featuring Larson (soprano) and Lucas Harris (lute) brings the project's innovative methodology and central case studies to life.

About the author

Katherine R. Larson, Professor of English, University of Toronto

Katherine R. Larson is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Early Modern Women in Conversation (Palgrave, 2011) and co-editor of Gender and Song in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2014), and Re-Reading Mary Wroth (Palgrave, 2015). A former Rhodes Scholar and the winner of the 2008 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature, Dr Larson is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

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