Dr Fraser Riddell f.i.riddell@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr Fraser Riddell f.i.riddell@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Jane Desmarais
Editor
David Weir
Editor
This article explores the significance of the body in decadent writing about music. It focuses on the fictional and nonfictional writings of the American journalist and critic James Gibbons Huneker (1857–1921). Huneker’s texts demonstrate the striking ways in which literary decadence aligns musical experience with nervous illness and madness, how it dwells on the materiality of sound as it is sensed through the body, and how it frames musical talent as fundamentally shaped by the gender, sexuality, and race of performers and listeners. The article concludes by examining those decadent musical cultures that Huneker’s writings overlook, such as the Harlem Renaissance, to demonstrate how literary texts present new modes of decadent community emerging from embodied and affective responses to music.
Riddell, F. (2021). Hearing: Bodies Resounding in Decadent Literature. In J. Desmarais, & D. Weir (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Decadence (507-524). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190066956.013.25
Publication Date | 2021-07 |
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Deposit Date | Oct 29, 2019 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 507-524 |
Book Title | Oxford Handbook of Decadence. |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190066956.013.25 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1630172 |
Contract Date | Jan 1, 2021 |
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