Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. 1. Middlebrow Modernism 1
6. 2. Sentimentality under Erasure in Peter Grimes 30
7. 3. The Timely Traditions of Albert Herring 63
8. 4. The Turn of the Screw, or: The Gothic Melodrama of Modernism 88
9. 5. The Burning Fiery Furnace and the Redemption of Religious Kitsch 117
10. 6. Death in Venice and the Aesthetics of Sublimation 147
11. Notes 177
12. Bibliography 215
13. Index 221