Long-gestating co-editing project finally published as part of 700-page book.
I’m delighted to announce that The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music has now been published. Edited overall by Delia da Sousa Correa, the first historical section (‘Part I: Literature and Music before 1500’) was co-edited by Helen Deeming and me. This section includes an introduction by the two of us with the additional co-authorship of Ardis Butterfield, to ensure we had a literary scholar represented, and a selection of seven chapters covering thematic topics chosen by the section editors. Of these, I co-authored two: one on ‘Polytextuality’ with Suzannah Clark; another on ‘Gender’ with Nicolette Zeeman. Others cover ‘Music and the Book’ (Deeming), ‘Liturgical Music and Drama’ (Nils Holger Petersen), ‘Intermedial Texts’ (Maureen Bolton), ‘Citation and Quotation’ (Jennifer Saltzstein), and ‘Courtly Subjectivities’ (Helen J. Swift and Anne Stone). I really enjoy co-writing and co-editing, something that kept me going with the inevitably protracted process of being part of such a huge volume as it made its slow but sure way to press.
There are also many further chapters on later periods of musical and literary history . Sadly, I don’t have any full-text links that I can share here, and, as a large companion volume designed for library acquisition, the book is not cheap. But the website advertising the book has a complete listing for the volume, as well as a downloadable PDF of the volume editor’s overall introduction.
My article on three songs by Blondel de Nesle just appeared in Music Analysis. 