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6. The Quest for the Grail: Wagner and Morris

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
  4. Permissions and Credits xi
  5. Acknowledgments xiii
  6. INTRODUCTIONS
  7. 1. The Book: Theme and Content 3
  8. 2. The Author: Encountering History 17
  9. PART ONE. Clio Ascendant: Historicist Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Europe
  10. 3. The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler 37
  11. 4. History as Vocation in Burckhardt's Basel 56
  12. 5. Medieval Revival and Its Modern Content: Coleridge, Pugin, and Disraeli 71
  13. 6. The Quest for the Grail: Wagner and Morris 90
  14. 7. Museum in Contested Space: The Sword, the Scepter, and the Ring 105
  15. PART TWO. Clio Eclipsed: Toward Modernism in Vienna
  16. 8. Grace and the Word: Austria's Two Cultures and Their ModernFate 125
  17. 9. Generational Tension and Cultural Change 141
  18. 10. From Public Scene to Private Space: Architecture as Culture Criticism 157
  19. 11. Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation 172
  20. 12. To the Egyptian Dig: Freud's Psycho-Archeology of Cultures 191
  21. AFTERWORD
  22. 13. History and the Study of Culture 219
  23. Index 233
  24. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 241
Thinking with History
This chapter is in the book Thinking with History
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400864782.90

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
  4. Permissions and Credits xi
  5. Acknowledgments xiii
  6. INTRODUCTIONS
  7. 1. The Book: Theme and Content 3
  8. 2. The Author: Encountering History 17
  9. PART ONE. Clio Ascendant: Historicist Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Europe
  10. 3. The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler 37
  11. 4. History as Vocation in Burckhardt's Basel 56
  12. 5. Medieval Revival and Its Modern Content: Coleridge, Pugin, and Disraeli 71
  13. 6. The Quest for the Grail: Wagner and Morris 90
  14. 7. Museum in Contested Space: The Sword, the Scepter, and the Ring 105
  15. PART TWO. Clio Eclipsed: Toward Modernism in Vienna
  16. 8. Grace and the Word: Austria's Two Cultures and Their ModernFate 125
  17. 9. Generational Tension and Cultural Change 141
  18. 10. From Public Scene to Private Space: Architecture as Culture Criticism 157
  19. 11. Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation 172
  20. 12. To the Egyptian Dig: Freud's Psycho-Archeology of Cultures 191
  21. AFTERWORD
  22. 13. History and the Study of Culture 219
  23. Index 233
  24. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 241
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