David Deutsch is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA.

Deutsch writes about music, chiefly German, that evoked transcendental ideas in British literati, while deftly crossing lines of class, education, and sexual orientation … Deutsch’s argument is vitally important for showing how British listeners discovered a psychological release in the classical repertoire, enabling a “popular cosmopolitanism” that helped to “construct public sanctuaries amidst hostile crowds.

• Introduction: Approaches to Classical Music in British Literature, 1870–1945: Theory and Practice1. The Liberalization of Music in Aesthetic Literature: Pater and Oxford2. Modernism’s Distinctive Musical Rhetoric: Eliot, Huxley, and Woolf3. The Musical Refinement of the Lower-Middle and Working Classes: Bennett, Lawrence, and their Contemporaries4. Distinguishing a Musical Homoeroticism: Pater, Forster, and Their Aesthetic Descendants5. Classical Music, Cosmopolitanism, and War: From Authors to AudiencesConclusion: A Literary Coda: Classical Music in British LiteratureWorks CitedIndex

David Deutsch is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA.

Deutsch writes about music, chiefly German, that evoked transcendental ideas in British literati, while deftly crossing lines of class, education, and sexual orientation … Deutsch’s argument is vitally important for showing how British listeners discovered a psychological release in the classical repertoire, enabling a “popular cosmopolitanism” that helped to “construct public sanctuaries amidst hostile crowds.

• Introduction: Approaches to Classical Music in British Literature, 1870–1945: Theory and Practice1. The Liberalization of Music in Aesthetic Literature: Pater and Oxford2. Modernism’s Distinctive Musical Rhetoric: Eliot, Huxley, and Woolf3. The Musical Refinement of the Lower-Middle and Working Classes: Bennett, Lawrence, and their Contemporaries4. Distinguishing a Musical Homoeroticism: Pater, Forster, and Their Aesthetic Descendants5. Classical Music, Cosmopolitanism, and War: From Authors to AudiencesConclusion: A Literary Coda: Classical Music in British LiteratureWorks CitedIndex