George Eliot and Music - Tapa dura

This treatise explores the extent to which music played a role in the literary works of George Eliot. Her urgent need to make us listen and to be stirred by the tones and modulators of the human voice and harmony are seen to be vital to her as visual imagination. The author concentrates principally on "The Mill on the Floss", "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda" and argues that music was an indispensable component of each of these works.