Elgar’s Critical Critics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Permissions and Credits xi
5. Of Worcester and London: An Introduction xiii
6. PART I. WORCESTER
7. Measure of a Man: Catechizing Elgar’s Catholic Avatars 3
8. Elgar the Escapist? 39
9. Elgar and the Persistence of Memory 59
10. “The Spirit-Stirring Drum”: Elgar and Populism 97
11. PART II. DOCUMENTS
12. Early Reviews of The Apostles in British Periodicals 127
13. Charles Sanford Terry and Elgar’s Violin Concerto 173
14. PART III. LONDON
15. Elgar’s Critical Critics 193
16. Elgar and the Salons: The Significance of a Private Musical World 223
17. Elgar and the British Raj: Can the Mughals March? 249
18. Working the Crowd: Elgar, Class, and Reformulations of Popular Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 287
19. Elgar’s War Requiem 317
20. PART IV. SUMMATION
21. Transcending the Enigmas of Biography: The Cultural Context of Sir Edward Elgar’s Career 365
22. INDEX 407
23. Notes on the Contributors 423