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Austria in the Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
This Volume contains papers presented at a symposium organized by the Center for Austrian Studies and held at the University of Minnesota in May 1989. Scholars from Austria, England, Canada, and the United States, specializing in Austrian history, music, art, and literature met to discuss a number of common topics and themes form a variety of perspectives relating to Austria in the age of the French Revolution. The symposium was remarkable for the congeniality of the participants and the easy and fruitful way in which they exchanged ideas and blended their approaches ind insights. The development of Austrian diplomacy, warfare, society, and culture in the period, and the impact of the French Enlightenment and Revolution on Austrian art, literature, music, drama, and journalism are explored in the essays that appear in this study.
The Literature of Weimar Classicism
New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.
Beethoven and His World
Following the author's acclaimed biographical dictionaries on Schubert and Mozart, 'Beethoven and His World' offers an extremely comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the composer's relations with a multitude of persons with whom he associated on a personal or professional basis: relatives,friends, acquaintances, librettists, poets, publishers, artists, patrons, and musicians. With more than 450 entries, the dictionary is the result of a wide-ranging examination of primary and secondary sources, and critically assesses the use which scholars have made of the considerabledocumentation now available. In particular, there are numerous references to Beethoven's correspondence and conversation books, which have recently been published in excellent new editions. The book places the composer and his music in a fuller context and a wider perspective than might bepossible in a traditional biography; it will appeal to all music lovers, both the scholar and the non-specilaist alike.
Women and German Drama
If all the world's a stage, playwrights can theoretically be seen as in control of the world they create; this book asks to what extent women dramatists manage to use the space of the drama to reflect the world that they experience."--BOOK JACKET.
Oh What Drama!
Sigrid Scholtz Novak was born October 4, 1931 in Reichenbach, East Germany. She went to school in Breslau, Silesia, and after the war in Jever and Wilhelmshaven, North Germany. She studied in London and Paris before coming to America where she completed her studies at the Johns Hopkins University. There she earned an MA in Creative Writing (1968) and the Ph.D. in German (1972). Images of Womanhood in the Plays of German Female Dramatists: 1892-1918 was accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. She has taught literature and language at Wilson College in Pennsylvania; Mary Baldwin College, Virginia; the Abadan Institute of Technology in Abadan, Iran; the McNeese...
Tropics of Haiti
The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of international significance. Here is a literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants.
Der Verein der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen in Wien
Am Abend des 1. April des Jahres 1885 gründeten in Wien 50 literatur- und kunstschaffende Frauen mit dem »Verein der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen in Wien« ein Netzwerk, das ihnen neben materieller Absicherung bei Not, Krankheit und Alter auch ein Forum der Förderung und Anregung bieten konnte. In dem vorliegenden Buch wird der frühe, den emanzipatorischen und sozialen Bewegungen des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts zuzuzählende Verein in seinen kulturellen, ökonomischen und politischen Beziehungsgeflechten dargestellt. Anhand von Vereinsdokumenten, Tagebüchern und unveröffentlichten Briefen werden die Bemühungen der Vereinsfrauen um Einigkeit, ihre Erfolge wie auch Verhinderungen in den Fokus einer über ein halbes Jahrhundert währenden Geschichte gestellt.
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen is indisputably the best known of all Scandinavian writers, his tales and stories having been translated probably into more languages than any other work except the Bible. He is also one of the greatest travelers of nineteenth-century belles lettres and few were the major European cities, capitals, and countries he did not visit, many of them several times: Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Weimar, Paris, and London. He met and became friends with some of the most outstanding representatives of the European artistic community: Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas père, Franz Grillparzer, Heinrich Heine, the Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Franz Liszt, ...
Fabricating Pleasure
Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertainment. Entertainment, defined as occasions for creating pleasure, added an important dimension to the lifestyle and self-definition of the German middle class around the turn of the nineteenth century. Modern forms of culture and consumption appearing around this time not only enhanced pleasure in physical sensations but also enabled imaginary sensations in the absence of actual stimuli. Desiring, rather than having, became an important mode of cultural consumption, linking products and practices with self-image, serving to express social ident...
Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs
This is the first bibliography in its field, based on first-hand collations of the actual articles. International in scope, it includes publications found in public theatre libraries and archives of Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Florence, London, Milan, New York and Paris amongst others. Over 3500 detailed entries on separately published sources such as books, sales and exhibition catalogues and pamphlets provide an indispensible guide for theatre students, practitioners and historians. Indices cover designers, productions, actors and performers. The iconography provides an indexed record of over 6000 printed plates of performers in role, illustrating performance costume from the 18th to 20th century.
