Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel

Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the role played by music in the canon of British fiction since the eighteenth century.

Author: G. Smyth
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230573284

About the Author

GERRY SMYTH is Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has published widely on the literature and music of Britain and Ireland. His previous books include The Novel and the Nation (1997), Space and the Cultural Imagination (2001) and Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music (2005).