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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/34575 en Copyright 2012 Rebeccah Bechtold American literature Sentimentality Music Composing the body: narrative in the age of improvisation, 1770-1867 This dissertation analyzes how antebellum authors appropriated music—as bodily sentiment, scientific theory, and performative practice—to negotiate the social tensions that afflicted nineteenth century American culture. Drawing on a diverse archive of primary materials, I argue that music’s development into an improvisational aesthetic inspired sentimental authors to integrate musical form and theory into their compositional practices in ways that allowed them to explore the limits and freedoms of feeling. Pro-slavery southerners like Caroline Lee Hentz and Augusta Evans recognized a resemblance between European improvisation and the formless melodies of slave songs, forcing them to try to distinguish a white, sentimental musicality from “the wild, sad strains” of the slave. But other authors, including Herman Melville and Lydia Maria Child, took up the intersection of white and black musicality to recommend a new form of sympathetic listening, thereby challenging the nation’s dominate attitudes toward race. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2012-07-02T18:13:28Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Bechtold_Rebeccah.pdf: 3400812 bytes, checksum: bcde66e17309740aaa5ad4a2da4fc685 (MD5) Loughran, Patricia Loughran, Patricia Murison, Justine Chai, Leon Wood, Gillen Bechtold, Rebeccah 2012-09-18T21:26:15Z 2012-09-18T21:26:15Z 2014-09-18T10:00:56Z 2012-08 2012-09-18T21:26:15Z 2012-08 Made available in DSpace on 2012-09-18T21:26:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Bechtold_Rebeccah.pdf: 3400812 bytes, checksum: bcde66e17309740aaa5ad4a2da4fc685 (MD5) license.txt: 4067 bytes, checksum: b4ad3c613448f27e3b3b8dad692d1558 (MD5) Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:35:53-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: 2014-09-18 16:27:16 UTC Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by Seth Robbins (srobbins@illinois.edu) on 2012-09-18T21:27:34Z Item is restricted until 2014-09-18T21:27:16Z Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 34849 on 2014-09-18T10:00:56Z. English 1499 English 0311 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:English -UIUC 10KS0311PHD