Genius, Power and Magic: A Cultural History of Germany from Goethe to Wagner

ISBN-13: 9781780764009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 384 str.

Roderick Cavaliero (Independent Historian)

Opis

Before unification in 1871, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread, somewhat lacking in cultural cohesion. Yet between the end of the Thirty Years War and unification under Bismarck, Germany became the land of philosophers and poets, writers and composers. Roderick Cavaliero provides a fascinating overview of Germany's cultural zenith and its artistic exports - including the literature of Goethe and Grimm, the music of Wagner, Schumann and Mendelssohn and the philosophy of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Schiller and Kant. Providing a comprehensive and highly-readable account of Germany from Frederick the Great to Bismarck, Genius, Power and Magic is fascinating reading for anyone interested in European history and the extraordinary cultural legacy of this golden age.

Spis treści

List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Fitzboodle in Pumpernickel2. A German Panorama3. Genius : Germans in Search of God4. Genius : Germans in Search of Man (1)5. Germans in Search of Man (2)6. Potentates and Patrons (1)7. Potentates and Patrons (2)8. The Catholic South9. Magic: Musical Germany10. Pumpernickel Discovered11. Revolution Across the Rhine12. The Revolution of 'Pumpernickel'13. Romance on the Rhine14. The Tales of the Hoffmen15. Harmony and Dissonance16. Butterflies or Maggots17. 'Pumpernickel' by Binoculars18. Power over Genius and MagicChronological DataNotesBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Roderick Cavaliero is a writer and historian whose interests range hugely and reflect a distinguished professional life. After reading history at Oxford he taught in Malta, and later joined the British Council, serving successively in New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, London and Rome, becoming Deputy Director-General. He has since been chairman of the Management Committee of the British School in Rome and Trustee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, and of the Charles Wallace India Trust. Italia Romantica is based on his intimate knowledge of Italy's history and the role of romantic literature.