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(More customer reviews)Seeing this book rise from its conception to final publication gave me an unusual opportunity to observe scholarly writing first-hand. I had been very proud to have contributed to this book by choosing the cover image and helping to choose the title, among other things listed on the last page of the preface, which has been removed. I think the last page of the preface should be restored to the preview, because it leaves out important references to colleagues. I believe the preface, if displayed, should be done so in its entirety. The author shows repeatedly how writers sacrificed their ethics in order to further their personal gains. Even to the extent of creating a caricature of their own personality to market themselves for purely pecuniary purposes. Or to the extent of betrayal to their own countrymen. To those who are not scholars, it is evident that, in reading the book, they will find that Hoagwood debunks historical myths about literary heroes and reveals their true motive: avarice.
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From Song to Print is a study of the major cultural transition from oral forms of art and discourse to the commercial culture of print that happened during the Industrial Revolution. Through a discussion of ancient musical forms (classical, biblical, and early-modern poetry of song), this book explores the typographical simulation of music and oral poetry during the nineteenth century. Original and innovative, this work shows how the musical writings of Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Keats, evoke antique cultures and ancient settings while offering a critique of their own imitative forms and the modern, commercial context in which they appear.
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