The Organist in Victorian Literature

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The Organist in Victorian Literature is written by Iain Quinn and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319492233 (ISBN 10) and 9783319492230 (ISBN 13).

The book examines the perception of the organist as the most influential musical figure in Victorian society through the writings of Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning. This will be the first book in the burgeoning area of research into the relationship of music and literature that examines the societal perceptions of a figure central to civic life in Victorian England. This book is deliberately interdisciplinary and will be of special interest to literature scholars and students of Victorian studies, culture, society, religion, gender studies, and music. However, the nature of the text does not require specialist knowledge of music.