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Autore |
Salmi Hannu |
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Imagined Germany : Richard Wagner's national utopia / / Hannu Salmi |
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New York : , : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, , 2020 |
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©2020 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (242 pages) |
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Collana |
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German life and civilization |
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Disciplina |
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Nationalism - Germany - History - 19th century |
History |
Germany Historiography |
Germany |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments vii -- Introduction 1 -- Part I: "What is German?": Wagner's Nationalist Writings and the Possibility of a New Germany -- Chapter 1: Wagner's Concept of the German Past 23 -- On the Birth of the Romantic Sense of History 23 -- Wagner and the History of Germany 27 -- Mythical Germany 30 -- The Past as Building Material for National Identity 33 -- Chapter 2: The Home of the German Spirit 38 -- Germany before Unification: 'An Atomistic Chaos' 38 -- The State, the Nation or Culture 40 -- 'The Spirit of the Genuine, True, Unadulterated': The National Stereotypes 49 -- The German Genius and the Mission of German Culture 52 -- Chapter 3: The Gesamtkunstwerk and the Future Germany 69 -- The Rebirth of Antiquity 69 -- Wagner's Theory of Art and the Gesamtkunstwerk 74 -- A Possible Germany 78 -- Part II: "Towards The Power of Germany ...": Wagner's Political Activity and The Unification of -- Germany, 1864-1871 -- Chapter 4: Wagner in Munich, 1864-65 87 -- Looking for a German Community 87 -- The Invitation to Munich 91 -- Ludwig II and Richard Wagner 96 -- The Political Gauntlet and Deportation from Munich 102 -- Chapter 5: A Political Outcast between Bavaria and Prussia 117 -- Wagner's and Ludwig's Relationship during the Triebschen Years 117 -- The Austro-Prussian War: Wagner's Changing Relation to Prussia 122 -- German |
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Art and German Politics 131 -- The Mastersingers of Nuremberg 134 -- Chapter 6: "I Stir Them Ever to Strife ..." 145 -- The Outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (1870) 145 -- "Hail to the Emperor!": Wagner and the Unification of Germany 149 -- Part III: The Paths of the Artist and the State Diverge -- Chapter 7: Disappointment with the New Germany 159 -- Bismarck's Relationship with Wagner 159 -- "Without Germany's Greatness My Art Was Only a Dream ..." 165 -- Chapter 8: Bayreuth: Towards Immortality 172 -- The Foundation of the Bayreuth Festival 172 -- A Place in History 178 -- The Maintenance of the Wagner-Image by the Bayreuth Circle 184 -- Epilogue: "My Kingdom Is Not of This World" 195 -- List of Sources 205 -- Index 229. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Imagined Germanyfocuses on Wagner's idea of Deutschtum, especially during the unification of Germany, 1864-1871. Salmi discusses how Wagner defined Germanness, what stereotypes, ideas, and sentiments he attached to it, and what kind of state could realize Wagner's national ideals. |
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