The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Music and Literature
Katherine Butler editor Rachael Durkin editor Christin Hoene editor Katharina Clausius editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:29th Jun '26
£245.00
This title is due to be published on 29th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The entanglement of music and literature of the early modern period is rich with exchanges, dialogues, and disputes. These entanglements present a fascinating counterpoint to early modernity, and in many ways serve as complicit witnesses to their times and places. The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Music and Literature considers musico-literary production from the period 1500–1800, as well as its contemporary resonances, and seeks to unpick these often knotty intersections. Following in the footsteps of The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature (ed. Rachael Durkin, Peter Dayan, Axel Englund, Katharina Clausius), the 28 chapters within consider this transformative time through four thematic groupings — music and early modern writings, political voices, staging the early modern, and afterlives — and invite readers to marvel at the miscellany of interactions between early modern musics and literatures from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. This Companion is therefore a valuable addition to the bookshelves of those looking to grapple with the early modern musico-literary relationship.
"In the wake of The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature (2022), this new volume considers musico-literary production from the period 1500–1800, as well as its contemporary resonances. It is a collection of essays that examines diverse forms of intermedial ‘in-betweenness’ and invites the reader into a fascinating spectrum of encounters between cultures, languages, histories, geographies, and genres. It is a book that will fill a major gap in the field of intermedial studies."
Pierre Degott, University of Lorraine
"A valuable resource for the intermedial study of music and literature, this Companion significantly enhances and develops the work begun in The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature. The collection's focus on the musico-literary coupling is commendably matched by a sustained concern with the socio-political dynamics of the early modern period, revealing fruitful and fresh perspectives for the project of decolonizing both naïve historical periodization and uncritical inter/disciplinarity. The well-conceived sections of the book—Music and Early Modern Writings, Political Voices, Staging the Early Modern, Early Modern Afterlives—provide a rich and comprehensive panoply of analyses sure to shape future trends in the study of early modern music and literature together."
Elicia Clements, Chair of the Department of Humanities and cross-appointed Associate Professor of Humanities and English, York University, Canada
ISBN: 9781032505589
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
472 pages