Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

This collection offers students a practical guide to understanding the ways music and literature intersect and the influence of each on the other, as well as developing methods of study. This is the first coursebook to help students explore the many types of relationship that exist between music and literature when studied in historical or aesthetic contexts. It fosters interdisciplinary study among students in these subject areas and helps to break down the barrier of music as seeming "impenetr