Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. List of Abbreviations xvii
6. Chapter One The Cultural and Religious Prehistories 1
7. Chapter Two Tolerance, Translation, and Acceptance: Goethe’s and Mendelssohn’s Voices in European Cultural Discourse to ca. 1850 30
8. Chapter Three Reality and Illusion, Past and Present: Goethe and the Walpurgisnacht 54
9. Chapter Four The Composition, Revision, and Publication of Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht 78
10. Chapter Five The Sources, Structure, and Narrative of Mendelssohn’s Walpurgisnacht Settings 97
11. Chapter Six At the Crossroads of Identity: Critical and Artistic Responses to Goethe’s and Mendelssohn’s Walpurgisnacht Treatments 162
12. Chapter Seven Performing Identity and Alterity: Die erste Walpurgisnacht Then and Now 197
13. Appendix A: Original Texts of Select Lengthy Documents Originally Written in Languages other than English 217
14. Notes 233
15. Selected Bibliography 261
16. Index of Works by Goethe and Mendelssohn 275
17. General Index 279