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E. M. FORSTER AND MUSIC E. M. Forster and Music illustrates music’s vital role in Forster’s positioning of his own ideology, awakening the ideological potency in the allusive force of Forster’s representations of music and reveal- ing the political significance of his engagement with music. It shifts criticism’s attention from the ‘musicality’ of Forster’s prose to his awarenessofthecontentiousrelationshipbetweenmusicandpolitics. Examining unobtrusive, often overlooked, musical allusions in a variety of Forster’s writings, this book demonstrates how music providedForsterwithameansofreflectingonraceandepistemology, material culture and colonialism, literary heritage and national char- acter, hero-worship and war, and gender and professionalism. It unveils how Forster’s musical representations are mediated through a matrix of ideas and debates of his time, such as those about evolution, empire, Britain’s relationship with the Continent, theriseoffascism,andtheemergenceofmusicologyasanacademic discipline. - is an independent scholar specializing in music and twentieth-century literature. Since receiving his PhD from the University of St Andrews, he has co-edited, with Emma Sutton, Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster’s Maurice, and has published articles on E. M. Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, and life-writing. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 23 Dec 2021 at 18:32:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943604 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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University of Toronto, on 23 Dec 2021 at 18:32:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943604 Contents Acknowledgements page vi Abbreviations viii Introduction The Rhythm of the Racial Other: Before Aspects of the Novel The Queering of Musical Instruments From Literary Heritage to National Character The Problem of the Wagnerian Hero Amateurism, Musicology, and Gender Postlude Bibliography Index v Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 23 Dec 2021 at 18:32:55, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943604 Acknowledgements This book started as a doctoral thesis at the University of St Andrews in ,andsincethen,IoweeverythingtoEmmaSutton,whofirstsawthe potential of the project and has stood by it. For many years, her insights and her own work have enriched my work, and her generosity, kindness, andencouragementhavesustainedmethroughallsortsofdifficulties.This book could not have been written without Emma, and I cannot be more grateful to her. I would like to acknowledge with many thanks The Provost and Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge and The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of theEstate of E. M.Forster for giving access to and granting permission to quote from Forster’s unpublished papers. I am particularly grateful to Patricia McGuire, archivist at the Archive Centre of King’s College, Cambridge, for her knowledge of Forster and useful advice. I would also like to thank Geoffrey Cox and John Corner, editors of Soundings: Documentary Film and the Listening Experience (Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield Press, ), for permission to develop my chapter ‘The “Appassionata” Sonata in A Diary for Timothy’ and weave it into the Introduction of this book. ManythanksareduetoAngelaHobart,thedirectorofCentroIncontri Umani,Ascona,whograntedmetwoperiodsofresidenceintheCentroin summer and in spring,respectively. Iwas encouragedto enjoy thefreedomandtranquillitythere,andbothtimesIhadthemostprecious experience of delicious reflection and produced work that surprised me later. During my first residence in , I was privileged enough to have met David Nugent, with whom I had many inspiring conversations. Also integraltomywonderfulexperienceinAsconaisthecareandunderstand- ingofBetinaHermesandRetoMordasini.Iamdelightedtoacknowledge them with gratitude. I am enormously grateful to the many people who have read earlier versions and sections of the book, including Michael Herbert, Peter Dale, vi Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 23 Dec 2021 at 18:32:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943604 Acknowledgements vii and Brandon Chao-Chi Yen. Brandon, in particular, provided a sensible voiceofcalmandkindnesswhenIwasfinalizingthebook.DeliadaSousa Correa and Christina Alt, who examined my thesis and made extremely usefulcommentsandsuggestionsthen,havegivenmeunflinchingsupport and sagacious advice during my postdoctoral years. Important thanks as well to Janie Brooks, who helped me refine my English writing in St Andrews and continued to ask after the book. I am delighted to acknowl- edgetheeversokindandresourcefulGillPlain,withoutwhomADiaryfor Timothy would have passed me by. Particular thanks are due to colleagues at the Schools of English and of Modern Languages at St Andrews, especially Emma Bond, Marina Cano Lopez, Ben Davies, Emily Finer, Colette Lawson, and Anna Watson for their conversations and kindness. Thanks, as well, go to Philip Ross Bullock, Charlotte de Mille, David Deutsch, Katharine Ellis, Gemma Moss, Charlotte Purkis, Sue Reid, and Fraser Riddell for their insightful questions at various conferences where ideas in this book received their first airing and discussion. Iwouldliketoexpressmygratitudeto theanonymousreadersfortheir astuteandinvaluablesuggestions.IamgratefultoRayRyanfortakingon this project, and to Edgar Mendez, Sarah Starkey, and the team at Cambridge University Press for seeing the book through production. Friendshavegivenmetheirpatienceandcompanyandkeptmesanein thisterriblynoisyworld.Inparticular,IwouldliketothankYi-weiChang, Agnes Chen, Jenny Yi-Chien Chen, the late Jess Desanta, Lisa Griffin, Phoebe Huang, Yawen Jen, Cathy Liao, Eric Liu, Erica Mou, J. Patrick Pazdziora, Kayshinee Rye Ramchurn, Akihiko Shimizu, Verita Sriratana, Jen Swift, Gladys Tsai, Yi-chien Tsai, and Anna West. My greatest debt, though, is to my family – my parents and my brother – for everything they have done for me and for allowing me to do whatever I want to do. To them, my deepest thanks and love. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 23 Dec 2021 at 18:32:54, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943604 Abbreviations AE E.M.Forster,AlbergoEmpedocleandOtherWritings,ed.and intro. George H. Thomson (New York: Liveright, ) AH E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest and England’s Pleasant Land, ed. Elizabeth Heine (London: Andre Deutsch, ) AL E. M. Forster, Alexandria: A History and a Guide and Pharos and Pharillon, ed. Miriam Allott (London: Andre Deutsch, ) AN E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel and Related Writings, ed. Oliver Stallybrass (London: Edward Arnold, ) AS E.M.Forster,ArcticSummerandOtherFiction,ed.Elizabeth Heine and Oliver Stallybrass (London: Edward Arnold, ) CB E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book, ed. Philip Gardner (Stanford: Stanford University Press, ) GLD E. M. Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and Related Writings, ed. Oliver Stallybrass (London: Edward Arnold, ) HD E. M. Forster, The Hill of Devi and Other Indian Writings, ed. Elizabeth Heine (London: Edward Arnold, ) HE E. M. Forster, Howards End, ed. Oliver Stallybrass (London: Edward Arnold, ) JD E. M. Forster, The Journals and Diaries of E. M. Forster, ed. Philip Gardner, vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, ) LJ E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey, ed. Elizabeth Heine (London: Edward Arnold, ) M E. M. Forster, Maurice, ed. Philip Gardner (London: Andre Deutsch, ) MS E. M. Forster, The Machine Stops and Other Stories, ed. Rod Mengham (London: Andre Deutsch, ) viii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 23 Dec 2021 at 18:32:55, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943604 List of Abbreviations ix MSS-PI E. M. Forster, The Manuscripts of A Passage to India, ed. Oliver Stallybrass (London: Edward Arnold, ) NT E. M. Forster, Nordic Twilight (London: Macmillian, ) PI E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, ed. Oliver Stallybrass (London: Edward Arnold, ) PT E. M. Forster, The Prince’s Tale and Other Uncollected Writings,ed.P.N.Furbank(London:AndreDeutsch,) RV E. M. Forster, A Room with a View, ed. Oliver Stallybrass (London: Edward Arnold, ) SL Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, ed. Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank, vols (London: Collins, –) TCD Two Cheers for Democracy, ed. Oliver Stallybrass (London: Edward Arnold, ) UEE E. M. Forster, The Uncollected Egyptian Essays of E. M. Forster,ed.HildaD.SpearandAbdel-MoneimAly(Dundee: Blackness Press, ) WA E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, ed. Oliver Stallybrass (London: Edward Arnold, ) Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 23 Dec 2021 at 18:32:55, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943604 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 23 Dec 2021 at 18:32:55, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943604
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