Musical tropes and allusions play a well-established role in weaving the ‘poetic web’ of George Eliot’s novels (Gray 1989: 14).
In fact, his own research might be best summed up as a pursuit of what Eliot calls in Middlemarch the “roar which lies on the other side of silence.” Connor has long admired George Eliot as a writer and a thinker-a window to all facets of the intellectual and artistic life of her time. Connor is also a harpsichordist and organist, his interest in historical soundscapes adding to his love of early music performance (and vice versa). His research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature and aural culture, music and mediation, science and environment his projected Master’s thesis investigates the ecological-aural poetics of John Clare and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The 2022 Prize winning essay has been awarded this year to Connor Page, a graduate student at the University of British ColumbiaĬonnor Page is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, where he completed his undergraduate degree in music and literature.
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