Sarah Cash is lecturer in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Miami.
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Out of Time: Music as Temporal Excess in Thomas De Quincey's "Dream Fugue." Chapter 2: Lamenting Ruin: Irish Musical Mourning in Sydney Owenson's Wild Irish Girl. Chapter 3: Broken Boundaries: Disruptive Sound Spaces in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Chapter 4: A Singing Call: Death and Music Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend. Chapter 5: Distant Music: Temporal Disruption in James Joyce's Dubliners Conclusion: Coda: Re-imaging Ourselves in Time References Index