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This book addresses one of the most hotly contested debates in contemporary cultural life: the question of how anti-Semitism figures in the operas of Richard Wagner. Until now, scholars have generally acknowledged Wagner's anti-Semitism but have argued that it is irrelevant to the operas themselves. Marc A. Weiner challenges that traditional view by asserting that anti-Semitism is a crucial, pervasive feature in Wagner's operas.
Weiner argues that the operas exemplify and contribute to a vast collection of images that are patently anti-Semitic - and that were readily recognized as such by nineteenth-century German audiences. These images were associated particularly with the body.
Through a careful examination of Wagner's music, libretti, and stage directions, Weiner reconstructs iconographies of corporeal images - iconographies of the eye, voice, smell, gait, and sexuality - that were essential to the operas and were "associated with anti-Semitism and the longing for an imagined German community."

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Marc A. Weiner is a professor of Germanic studies and film studies at Indiana University and the author of Undertones of Insurrection (Nebraska 1993).
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“Nobody in their right mind denies that Wagner was an anti-Semite, and a virulent one at that. But is there actual evidence of anti-Semitism in the works themselves? . . . Weiner’s brilliant book gathers the evidence more meticulously and comprehensively than any has done before, and is essential reading.”—Barry Millington, Opera (Barry Millington Opera )

“A serious attempt to place Wagner’s dramatic work into proper context both in the field of music and in the repertoire of antisemitic literature—and it deserves to be studied carefully.”—Cecil Bloom, Judaism Today (Cecil Bloom Judaism Today )

“A tremendous advance in the study of Wagner and the cultural influences that informed his work.”—Hillary Hope Herzog, Modern Language Notes (Hillary Hope Herzog Modern Language Notes )

“An immensely informative cultural history.”—German Life (German Life )

“Certainly the most important work on Wagner that I have read in the last decade. It opens up fresh approaches and is likely—no, certain—to have a major impact on Wagner studies as well as the history of antisemitic mentality.”—Paul Lawrence Rose, author of Wagner: Race, Revolution and Redemption (Paul Lawrence Rose )

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