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Genius, Power and Magic: A Cultural History of Germany from Goethe to Wagner
Roderick Cavaliero
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Hardback. Roderick Cavaliero provides a fascinating overview of Germany's cultural zenith and its artistic exports. Comprehensive and highly-readable, 'Genius, Power and Magic' surveys the legacy of this golden age, including the literature of Goethe and Grimm, the music of Wagner, Schumann and Mendelssohn and the philosophy of Schiller and Kant. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 integrated bw. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 158 x 34. Weight in Grams: 750.
Before unification, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread. It was known across Europe for the plentiful supply of consorts to be found among its abundant royalty, but the language and culture was largely incomprehensible to those outside its lands. In the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- between the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 and unification under Bismarck in 1871 - Germany became the land of philosophers, poets, writers and composers. This particularly German cultural movement was able to survive the avalanche ... Read more
Before unification, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread. It was known across Europe for the plentiful supply of consorts to be found among its abundant royalty, but the language and culture was largely incomprehensible to those outside its lands. In the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- between the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 and unification under Bismarck in 1871 - Germany became the land of philosophers, poets, writers and composers. This particularly German cultural movement was able to survive the avalanche ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780764009
SKU
V9781780764009
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About Roderick Cavaliero
Roderick Cavaliero is a writer and historian. He is the author of 'Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of Suffren', 'Independence of Brazil', 'Strangers in the Land: The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire' and 'Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient' (all I.B.Tauris) as well as 'The Last of the Crusaders: The Knights of ... Read more
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