Sounding Prose: Music in the 17th-Century Dutch Novel
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Sounding Prose: Music in the 17th-Century Dutch Novel
By (Author) Natascha Veldhorst
Anthem Press
Anthem Press
15th March 2022
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
Literature: history and criticism
839.31309
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 153mm, Height 229mm, Spine 26mm
454g
Description
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.
Author Bio
Natascha Veldhorst is Assistant Professor Arts and Culture Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands.
