The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses--the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature--and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange.

Rachael Durkin is Senior Lecturer in Music in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University.

Peter Dayan is Honorary Professorial Fellow in Word and Music Studies at the University of Edinburgh. From 2014 to 2019, he was also Obel Visiting Professor at the University of Aalborg in Denmark.

Axel Englund is Professor of Literature and Wallenberg Academy Fellow in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University.

Katharina Clausius is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Intermedial Studies in the Département de littératures et de langues du monde at the Université de Montréal.