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.