{"product_id":"the-matter-of-song-in-early-modern-england-texts-in-and-of-the-air-paperback","title":"The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatherine R. Larson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung. When a reader encounters a song in a sonnet sequence, a romance, and even a masque or a play, however, the tendency is to engage with it as poem rather than as musical performance. Opening up the notion of song from a performance-based perspective, \u003cem\u003eThe Matter of Song in Early Modern England\u003c\/em\u003e considers the implications of reading song not simply as lyric text but as an embodied and gendered musical practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnimating the traces of song preserved in physiological and philosophical commentaries, singing handbooks, poetic treatises, and literary texts ranging from Mary Sidney Herbert's \u003cem\u003ePsalmes\u003c\/em\u003e to John Milton's \u003cem\u003eComus\u003c\/em\u003e, the book confronts song's ephemerality, its lexical and sonic capriciousness, and its airy substance. These features can resist critical analysis but were vital to song's affective workings in the early modern period. The volume foregrounds the need to attend much more closely to the embodied and musical dimensions of literary production and circulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. It also makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of women's engagement with song as writers and as performers. A companion recording of fourteen songs featuring Larson (soprano) and Lucas Harris (lute) brings the project's innovative methodology and central case studies to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatherine R. Larson, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, University of Toronto\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatherine R. Larson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eEarly Modern Women in Conversation\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2011) and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eGender and Song in Early Modern England\u003c\/em\u003e (Ashgate, 2014), and \u003cem\u003eRe-Reading Mary Wroth\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2015). A former Rhodes Scholar and the winner of the 2008 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature, Professor Larson is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.49 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157223870599,"sku":"9780192865526","price":71.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/99b91f24f2a649d6ab531cfe55f03d72.webp?v=1733249481","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-matter-of-song-in-early-modern-england-texts-in-and-of-the-air-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}