The Muse as Eros: Music, Erotic Fantasy and the Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination

This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative masculine subjectivity, and important aspects of the shift from the styles and aesthetics of Romantic Idealism to Modernist Anxiety in music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.