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Article: Music, character, and social standing in jane austen's emma. (Miscellany).(Critical Essay)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Kathryn Libin teaches music history and theory at Vassar College. Her specialties include music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and early keyboard instruments. Ms. Libin has lectured and published on Mozart's concertos, music in Jane Austen's novels, and Goethe's Faust in music. Currently she is writing a book on Mozart's keyboard concertos.
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MODERN READERS MAY NOT BE FULLY AWARE of the crucial and all-pervasive role of music in English domestic life during the nineteenth century. Jane Austen's affectionate and disciplined attachment to music, which she cultivated throughout her life, is manifest in her novels, all of which contain ...