Wagnerism: art and politics in the shadow of music

Prelude : Death in Venice

Rheingold : Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring

Tristan Chord : Baudelaire and the Symbolists

Swan Knight : Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America

Grail Temple : Esoteric, Decadent, and Satanic Wagner

Holy German Art : The Kaiserreich and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Nibelheim : Jewish and Black Wagner

Venusberg : Feminist and Gay Wagner

Brünnhilde's Rock : Willa Cather and the Singer-Novel

Magic Fire : Modernism, 1900 to 1914

Nothung : The First World War and Hitler's Youth

Ring of Power : Revolution and Russia

Flying Dutchman : Ulysses, The Waste Land, The Waves

Siegfried's Death : Nazi Germany and Thomas Mann

Ride of the Valkyries : Film from The Birth of a Nation to Apocalypse Now

The Wound : Wagnerism After 1945.