Edward Elgar and the Nostalgic Imagination

Contents

• 1. Nostalgia
• 2. Memory: thematic reminiscence in Elgar
• Hauntings
• Epiphanies
• Autumnal harmonies
• 3. Nobility: the ideal in the present
• Negative nobility
• Faith and ruin
• 4. Nature: the rural Pan
• The wind among the pines
• Aeolian visitations
• Nature and form
• 5. Childhood: the Romantic child
• Moore's 'Better Land'
• Starlight and recollection
• The Elgarian child transformed
• 6. Identity: the feminine element inside
• Imperialist nostalgia
• A demon for counterpoint
• 7. Waters: A flowing-awayness
• Penal waters
• Severn and Amazon
• Bibliography.