Music in contemporary British fiction : listening to the novel

Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the role played by music in the canon of British fiction since the eighteenth century. A study of the role and representation of music in contemporary British fiction which also provides a theoretical account of the historical relationship between the two media.