Dr Fraser Riddell is Assistant Professor in Literary Medical Humanities at Durham University. Recent publications include articles in Victorian Literature and Culture and the Journal of Victorian Culture, as well as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Decadence. He previously taught at Trinity College, Oxford and the University of St Andrews.

'… offers a crucial contribution to conversations in both Victorian studies and queer musicology about the relationships among aesthetics, erotics, embodiment, and subjectivity. Riddell invites readers in both fields to reimagine music not as a utopian source of identity affirmation, but rather as a “startlingly antihumanist” force that fosters a range of complex, difficult, and often disturbing affects and experiences (51).' Shannon Draucker, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies

• Introduction; 1. Music, emotion and the homosexual subject; 2. Flesh: Music, masochism, queerness; 3. Voice: Disembodiment and desire; 4. Touch: Transmission, contact, connection; 5. Time: Backwards listening; Coda.

Dr Fraser Riddell is Assistant Professor in Literary Medical Humanities at Durham University. Recent publications include articles in Victorian Literature and Culture and the Journal of Victorian Culture, as well as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Decadence. He previously taught at Trinity College, Oxford and the University of St Andrews.

'… offers a crucial contribution to conversations in both Victorian studies and queer musicology about the relationships among aesthetics, erotics, embodiment, and subjectivity. Riddell invites readers in both fields to reimagine music not as a utopian source of identity affirmation, but rather as a “startlingly antihumanist” force that fosters a range of complex, difficult, and often disturbing affects and experiences (51).' Shannon Draucker, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies

• Introduction; 1. Music, emotion and the homosexual subject; 2. Flesh: Music, masochism, queerness; 3. Voice: Disembodiment and desire; 4. Touch: Transmission, contact, connection; 5. Time: Backwards listening; Coda.

Dr Fraser Riddell is Assistant Professor in Literary Medical Humanities at Durham University. Recent publications include articles in Victorian Literature and Culture and the Journal of Victorian Culture, as well as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Decadence. He previously taught at Trinity College, Oxford and the University of St Andrews.

'… offers a crucial contribution to conversations in both Victorian studies and queer musicology about the relationships among aesthetics, erotics, embodiment, and subjectivity. Riddell invites readers in both fields to reimagine music not as a utopian source of identity affirmation, but rather as a “startlingly antihumanist” force that fosters a range of complex, difficult, and often disturbing affects and experiences (51).' Shannon Draucker, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies

• Introduction; 1. Music, emotion and the homosexual subject; 2. Flesh: Music, masochism, queerness; 3. Voice: Disembodiment and desire; 4. Touch: Transmission, contact, connection; 5. Time: Backwards listening; Coda.