Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire

By Kevin Kopelson

Book Overview

In Beethoven's Kiss, Kevin Kopelson takes you on a journey through a unique literary style which is both scholarly and meditative. It interweaves the issues of gender, sexuality and erotic romanticism and presents them against the backdrop of romantic pianism. Exploring quasi-sexual myths of the nineteenth century, Beethoven's Kiss takes a long look at the origin and consequences of those myths.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804725985
• ISBN13: 9780804725989
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.5"