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Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective
This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity associated with the production and reception of Italian opera across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges between composers, impresarios, musicians and audiences, ideas of operatic Italianness (italianit...) constantly changed and had to be reconfigured, reflecting the radically transformative experience of time and space that throughout the nineteenth century turned opera into a global aesthetic commodity. The book opens with a substantial introduction discussing key concepts in cross-disciplinary perspective and concludes with an epilogue relating its findings to different historiographical trends in transnational opera studies.
Censorship of Literature in Austria, 1751-1848
The influence of censorship on the intellectual and political life in the Habsburg Monarchy during the period under scrutiny can hardly be overstated. This study examines the institutional foundations, operating principles, and results of the censorial activity through analysis of the prohibition lists and examination of the censors themselves. The effects of censorship on the authors, publishers, and booksellers of the time are illustrated with the help of contemporary documents. Numerous case studies focus on individual works forbidden by the censors: Romanticists like Ludwig Tieck and E. T. A. Hoffmann and even authors of classic German literature like Wieland, Goethe, and Schiller saw their works slashed, as did writers of popular French and English novels and plays. An annex documents the most important regulations along with a selection of censorial reports.
Berks County Law Journal
Containing cases decided by the courts of Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Franz Anton Graf von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (1778–1861)
Die österreichische Geschichte des Vormärz ist ohne die Kenntnis Kolowrats als einer der zentralen Akteure nicht hinreichend zu verstehen und zu erklären. Aufgrund der Komplexität seiner Themenschwerpunkte von der bisherigen Forschung weitgehend vernachlässigt, lässt sich anhand des äußerst umfangreichen, bisher kaum herangezogenen Archivmaterials die starke Position des Finanz- und Innenpolitikers in der Habsburgermonarchie verdeutlichen. Kolowrat verfügte über maßgeblichen direkten und indirekten Einfluss auf die Kaiser und auf wesentliche Handlungsträger seiner Zeit. Seine politische Biographie stellt damit die bisherige Vorstellung von einem absolutistischen Herrschaftssystem kritisch in Frage. Der Kaiser war zwar die letzte Instanz, seine Entscheidungen wurden aber von den maßgeblichen Ministern am Hof beeinflusst. Über Kolowrats Biograph ie werden somit Strukturen der Habsburgermonarchie in der Periode bis 1848 ersichtlich, in die er eng verwoben war und die er mit prägte.
