Sounding Bodies

Draucker, Shannon

dc.contributor.author	Draucker, Shannon
dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-01T12:56:43Z
dc.date.available	2024-07-01T12:56:43Z
dc.date.issued	2024-07-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/14996
dc.description	Can the concert hall be as erotic as the bedroom? Many Victorian writers believed so. In the mid-nineteenth century, acoustical scientists such as Hermann von Helmholtz and John Tyndall described music as a set of physical vibrations that tickled the ear, excited the nerves, and precipitated muscular convulsions. In turn, writers—from canonical figures such as George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, to New Women novelists like Sarah Grand and Bertha Thomas, to anonymous authors of underground pornography—depicted bodily sensations and experiences in unusually explicit ways. These writers used scenes of music listening and performance to intervene in urgent conversations about gender and sexuality and explore issues of agency, pleasure, violence, desire, and kinship. Sounding Bodies shows how both classical music and Victorian literature, while often considered bastions of conservatism and repression, represented powerful sites for feminist and queer politics.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program at https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	SUNY Press	en_US
dc.relation.url	https://sunypress.edu/Books/S/Sounding-Bodies	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Literary Criticism	en_US
dc.subject	Gender Studies	en_US
dc.subject	Queer Studies	en_US
dc.subject	Music	en_US
dc.subject	History of Science	en_US
dc.title	Sounding Bodies	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
dc.description.version	VoR	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2024-07-01T12:56:44Z
dc.description.institution	N/A	en_US
dc.description.degreelevel	N/A	en_US