Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores th

Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.

Can the concert hall be as erotic as the bedroom? Many Victorian writers believed so. In the mid-nineteenth century, acoustical scientists such as Hermann von H

This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions