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This study bridges literature and music at an exciting and controversial point, offering the lover of music and literature and the specialist reader an insight into the relationship between Wagner’s operas and the nineteenth century novel, including comparisons with Rigoletto and Der Rosenkavalier in their evolution from other forms. It discusses matters of genre and national tradition, placing Wagner’s works in the heritage of the European Enlightenment. Comparisons of Wagner’s works with the novel have been fleeting, denoting only their length and complexity. Examining in principle and in detail the proximity of Wagner’s themes and techniques to the practices of the Realist novel, this study sheds original light on major issues of Wagner’s works and on opera as genre. The book trawls extensively in two research fields. It looks to the established Wagner literature for understandings of the musical procedures which map his works onto the prose fiction, while reading Wagner’s operas against the backdrop of the European novel, rather than against German Romantic fiction. It revisits Adorno’s music sociology and his seminal study of Wagner, but repositions many elements of his argument. Unusually, this book adopts a critical stance to Nietzsche’s view of Wagner. In marked contrast to Nietzsche, the study regards parallels between Wagner and Flaubert as an enrichment of our understanding of Wagner’s achievement. The book concludes with a major question of European cultural history: why it is that – in common with Italy, but in marked contrast to France or England – Germany’s most representative works in the nineteenth century are operas rather than novels.

Fiction --- Comparative literature --- Literary semiotics --- Wagner, Richard --- European fiction --- European fiction. --- European literature --- History and criticism. --- Wagner, Richard, --- Operas (Wagner, Richard) --- Musikdramen (Wagner, Richard) --- 1800-1899

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Benn, Gottfried --- Benn, Gottfried, --- Critique et interprétation

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Colonies in literature --- English literature --- French literature --- German literature --- History and criticism --- -French literature --- -German literature --- -British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- -History and criticism --- English literature - History and criticism --- French literature - History and criticism --- German literature - History and criticism

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This book analyses Darwin’s influence on art and the effect of his science on experiences of beauty. The first chapter discusses Darwin’s great forerunner, Alexander von Humboldt, and his contribution to thinking about the relationship between science and beauty. The second examines the public reception of Darwin in Germany, focusing on the German Naturalists and the important scientific controversies which Darwin’s idea provoked. It shows the political use of science (Häckel and Virchow) and foreshadows present-day debates between Darwinism and Creationism, science and an idealized view of nature. Against this background the book shows the effect of Darwin on three important fields: the perception of landscape in major writers (Zola, Lawrence, Jacobsen, Benn and Brecht) before 1920; the portrayal of wild life, as revealed in bird-painting; and the understanding of the relationship between the human body and character. The book brings together for the first time Darwin’s The Expression of Emotion with the work of major European novelists (Eliot, Gutzkow and Freytag), focusing on the place of the older understandings contained in physiognomy, which Darwin challenged, on the portrayal of ethnicity, and on debates about acting, including for the young Brecht.

Art and science. --- Aesthetics. --- Art, Modern. --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Modern art --- Nieuwe Ploeg (Group of artists) --- Science and art --- Science --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Darwin, Charles, --- Darwin, Charles, Robert --- Daerwen, --- Darvin, Čarls, --- Darvin, Charlʼz, --- Darvin, Tsharlz, --- Darwin, Carlos R., --- Darwin, Charles Robert, --- Darwin, Karol, --- Dāwin, --- Sdar-win, --- Sdar-win, Char-le-si Ro-sbe-thi, --- Ṭārvin̲, --- Ṭārvin̲, Cārlas,

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Birds --- Painting --- depictions [visual works] --- ornithology --- Germany