Wagnerism: art and politics in the shadow of music

Prelude : Death in Venice --

Rheingold : Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring --

Tristan Chord : Baudelaire and the Symbolists --

Swan Knight : Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America --

Grail temple : Esoteric, decadent, and satanic Wagner --

Holy German art : The Kaiserreich and fin-de-siècle Vienna --

Nibelheim : Jewish and Black Wagner --

Venusberg : Feminist and gay Wagner --

Brünnhilde's rock : Willa Cather and the singer-novel --

Magic Fire : Modernism, 1900 to 1914 --

Nothung : The First World War and Hitler's youth --

Ring of power : Revolution and Russia --

Flying Dutchman : Ulysses, The waste Land, The waves --

Siegfried's death : Nazi Germany and Thomas Mann --

Ride of the Valkyries : Film from The birth of a nation to Apocalypse now --

The wound : Wagnerism after 1945.