This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compelling new research area.

Natascha Veldhorst is Assistant Professor Arts and Culture Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands.

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Music in the Novel before 1900; 3. Problems Studying the Early Modern Novel; 4. Music as an Inserted Genre; 5. Music in 17th-Century Dutch Prose Fiction; 6. Functions of Music in 17th-Century Dutch Prose; 7. Reading Novels in the 17th Century; 8. Fiction and Reality; 9. Singing While Reading; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.