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InthefirstchapterofJuanAlonso’ssatiricnovelAlthea,theDivorceofAdam
andEve,thefirst-personnarrator,X.J.Muldoon,explainsthatwomenarethe
floppositeofpeople”andthatheflgrewupwiththefirmbeliefthattheDevil
inEdenworkedthroughEve.”1HeaddsthatflAdamneverstruck[him]as
theambitioustype,”andhe,Muldoon,didnotlikeEve,becausesheflwasso
treasonousandseductivetopoorAdam,whowasnomatchforher,andwho
washenceforthcondemnedtoworkandlivefromthesweatofhisbrow.”2
Attheendofthenovel,Muldoon-atalosstounderstandhowtheflNew”
independentwomanhasemergedintheearlysixties-declaresthatwehave
allbynowflgottenwindofthedivorceofAdamandEve.”3Tosomeextent,and
somewhatprovocatively,itmaybearguedthatthemetaphorofflthedivorce
ofAdamandEve”couldbeappliedtothemusic-literaturerelationshipas
itdevelopedinEnglandinthesecondpartoftheeighteenthcenturyand
earlynineteenthcentury.Followingagradualprocessinthecourseofthe
Georgianperiod,themusic-literaturerelationshipwaseventuallytoleadto
aninevitabledivorce.ToborrowAlonso’sphrase,thenovelwasindeedflno
match”formusic.
Inthepastyears,moreandmorecross-disciplinarystudieshavecometo
theforeinthehumanities,givingrisetointerestingresearchintothenotions
ofintertextualityandintermediality,inwhichthelinksbetweenthevisual
artsandthenovel,4betweenmusicandpainting,5andbetweenmusicand
literature,6havebeenvariouslyanalysedanddiscussed.InhisstudyLaurence
SterneandtheOriginsoftheMusicalNovel,WilliamFreedmanarguedthat
TristramShandywasafundamentallyflmusical”novelthatborrowednot
onlymetaphors,butalsostructuralelements,fromtheartofmusic.7While
1JuanAlonso.Althea-theDivorceofAdamandEve.NewYork1976,p.1.
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3Ibid.,p.362.
Ibid.,p.3.
4SeeforinstanceJefreyMeyers.PaintingandtheNovel.Manchester1975;Jakub
Lipski.PaintingtheNovel:PictorialDiscourseinEighteenth-CenturyEnglishFiction.
London2018.
5SeeforinstanceRichardLeppert.MusicandImage:Domesticity,Ideologyand
Socio-culturalFormationinEighteenth-centuryEngland.Cambridge1988.
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SeeforinstanceWernerWolf.TheMusicalizationofFiction:AStudyinthe
TheoryandHistoryofIntermediality.Amsterdam-AtlantaGA1999;GillenD’Arcy
Wood.RomanticismandMusicCultureinBritain,1779-1840-VirtueandVirtuosity.
Cambridge2010;andmyownMusicintheGeorgianNovel.Cambridge2015,onwhich
thepresentpaperisbased.
7WilliamFreedman.LaurenceSterneandtheOriginsoftheMusicalNovel.Athens
1978,passim.
