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'A Theme with Many Variations': Gertrude Hudson, Musical Criticism, and Turn-of-the-Century Periodical Culture

  • Charlotte Purkis

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    Abstract

    This essay "explores the central role played by periodical media in enabling women to fashion the art forms with which they were engaged, the languages of critique through which those forms were presented, and the audience to whom they were addressed." Taking a single figure as the starting point, this essay "explores Hudson's use of a Paterian, impressionistic aesthetic to mediate questions of voice and audience, and to navigate the shifting politics of place and gender. This notion of music as a medium within the writing, rather than simply being described by it, allowed Hudson to break free from the conventional languages of critique, an experiment facilitated by the format of the periodicals in which she appeared". (Binckes and Synder: 76).
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationWomen, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s
    Subtitle of host publicationThe Modernist Period
    EditorsCarey Snyder, Faith Binckes
    Place of PublicationEdinburgh
    PublisherEdinburgh University Press
    Chapter5
    Pages78-91
    Number of pages14
    Volume3
    ISBN (Electronic)9781474450669, 9781474450652
    ISBN (Print)9781474450645
    Publication statusPublished - May 2019

    Publication series

    NameThe Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain
    PublisherEdinburgh University Press

    Keywords

    • Modernism
    • Periodicals
    • Music
    • Criticism
    • Gender
    • 2020

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