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  • Chapter 1 - Music, Emotion and the Homosexual Subject

  • Fraser Riddell, University of Durham
  • Book:
    Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle
    Published online:
    15 April 2022
    Print publication:
    14 April 2022, pp 20-51
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    Chapter 1 demonstrates the centrality of ideas of ‘emotionalism’ in those sexological writings that consistently present the body of the male homosexual subject as peculiarly responsive to music. The contentious issue of the place of emotion and the body in music likewise informs debates in Victorian musical aesthetics. In this discussion, an examination of John Addington Symonds’s and Vernon Lee’s respective stances on such questions allows for a demarcation of divergent attitudes towards music, embodiment and queer desire in late Victorian culture. In particular, an examination of Lee’s writings on music allows for the exploration of what might be called ‘shameful listening’.