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