03615nam 2200421 450 991077478090332120230405075859.0(CKB)4960000000111307(NjHacI)994960000000111307(EXLCZ)99496000000011130720230329d2020 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImagined Germany Richard Wagner's National Utopia /Hannu SalmiSecond Edition.New York :Peter Lang Publishing,2020.©20201 online resource (229 pages)German life and civilization1-4331-6940-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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.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.German life and civilization.Imagined GermanyMusicPhilosophy and aestheticsHistory19th centuryMusicPhilosophy and aestheticsHistory780.9034Salmi Hannu455644NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910774780903321Imagined Germany3079891UNINA