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    Smyth the anarchist: fin-de-siecle radicalism in The Wreckers

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    Robinson, S
    Date
    2008-07-01
    Source Title
    CAMBRIDGE OPERA JOURNAL
    Publisher
    CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Robinson, Suzanne
    Affiliation
    Music
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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.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/28124
    DOI
    10.1017/S0954586709002456
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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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    Performing Arts and Creative Writing

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