Includes index.
Contents: Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism
Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years
"Girling" at the parlor piano
Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading
Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography
Fictions of the opera box.
Music in other words : Victorian conversations by Ruth A. Solie. ISBN 0520238451. Published by University of California Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.