Smyth the anarchist: fin-de-siecle radicalism in The Wreckers
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Robinson, SDate
2008-07-01Source Title
CAMBRIDGE OPERA JOURNALPublisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESSUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Robinson, SuzanneAffiliation
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Robinson, S. (2008). Smyth the anarchist: fin-de-siecle radicalism in The Wreckers. CAMBRIDGE OPERA JOURNAL, 20 (2), pp.149-179. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586709002456.Access Status
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This essay explores the roots of Ethel Smyth's opera <jats:italic>The Wreckers</jats:italic> (1903–04), composed to a libretto by H. B. Brewster, in <jats:italic>fin-de-siècle</jats:italic> debates on the legal and religious regulation of morality. Taking into account Smyth's jaundiced use of Cornish history, the contribution of Brewster's professed individual anarchism and sexual libertarianism, and Smyth's willingness to parody and manipulate musical conventions in order to reinforce radical ideals, it views the work both as a reflection of its authors' engagement with modernism and as a herald of Smyth's subsequent contribution to militant feminism.</jats:p>
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