Sounding Prose: Music in the 17th-Century Dutch Novel

by Natascha Veldhorst

Overview

This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, it is about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century musical prose from The Netherlands. It is remarkable that up until now the presence of musical elements in prose works from earlier centuries received almost no attention from academic researchers. This essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject. It presents an exploration of the role and function of musical elements in seventeenth-century Dutch prose fiction and at the same time offers an overview of this compelling and fascinating new musical-literary territory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839983009
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Series:	Anthem Impact
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Natascha Veldhorst is Assistant Professor Arts and Culture Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Music in the Novel before 1900; 3. Problems Studying the Early Modern Novel; 4. Music as an Inserted Genre; 5. Music in 17th-Century Dutch Prose Fiction; 6. Functions of Music in 17th-Century Dutch Prose; 7. Reading Novels in the 17th Century; 8. Fiction and Reality; 9. Singing While Reading; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.