Ellen Lockhart is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto. She has coedited, with James Davies, Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851, and her critical edition of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West is forthcoming.

"As with any scholarship that treats its material with sensitivity and thoroughness, here the subject justifies itself and the reader is motivated to keep reading—both within the book and without. That, after all, is perhaps the highest praise one could offer any new work, particularly one that disentangles such a beautiful can of worms."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dancing Statues2. Pimmalione3. Defining Italy in Haunted Rome4. Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy5. Giuditta Pasta and the History of Musical ElectrificationConclusionNotesBibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex

Ellen Lockhart is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto. She has coedited, with James Davies, Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851, and her critical edition of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West is forthcoming.

"As with any scholarship that treats its material with sensitivity and thoroughness, here the subject justifies itself and the reader is motivated to keep reading—both within the book and without. That, after all, is perhaps the highest praise one could offer any new work, particularly one that disentangles such a beautiful can of worms."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dancing Statues2. Pimmalione3. Defining Italy in Haunted Rome4. Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy5. Giuditta Pasta and the History of Musical ElectrificationConclusionNotesBibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex

Ellen Lockhart is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto. She has coedited, with James Davies, Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851, and her critical edition of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West is forthcoming.

"As with any scholarship that treats its material with sensitivity and thoroughness, here the subject justifies itself and the reader is motivated to keep reading—both within the book and without. That, after all, is perhaps the highest praise one could offer any new work, particularly one that disentangles such a beautiful can of worms."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dancing Statues2. Pimmalione3. Defining Italy in Haunted Rome4. Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy5. Giuditta Pasta and the History of Musical ElectrificationConclusionNotesBibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex