Science and the Romantic Vision in Early Nineteenth-Century Opera
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Product details:
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Date of Publication 6 January 2026
- ISBN 9781837652334
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages212 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 36 music exx. and 22 b/w illus. 700
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An interdisciplinary study of how early nineteenth-century science and opera articulated a transnational romantic vision of harmony between self and nature, and how this ideal gave way to mid-century realism and social conflict.
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An interdisciplinary study of how early nineteenth-century science and opera articulated a transnational romantic vision of harmony between self and nature, and how this ideal gave way to mid-century realism and social conflict. The end of the Napoleonic era ushered in a transnational outlook for Europe, where the traditional boundaries that separated people, ideas and things were blurred in favour of a unified and cosmopolitan vision for society. The result of this shift created a 'romantic vision', a new way to perceive the imagined potential of the self in correspondence with the infinite reality of the natural world. Early nineteenth-century scientists such as Alexander von Humboldt (earth sciences), Franz Anton Mesmer (mesmerism), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (galvanism) and Fre?de?ric Dubois d'Amiens (hysteria) are explored in this context to see how the romantic vision was reflected in their work and received by society. Seeing opera as a confluence of all the arts and encompassing a similar romantic vision, this book examines three paradigmatic operas that contend with the forces of nature: Weber's Der Freischu?tz (1821), Meyerbeer's Robert le diable (1831) and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (1835). In these three highly successful works from separate operatic traditions, the unseen, inner world of nature reveals a wholeness of the self with the divine, showcasing a healthy optimism for society. The book concludes by discussing Gounod's Faust (1859), a work that highlights the struggle of an early-16th-century scientist and places it against the context of the social revolutions of 1848 and the seminal publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859. In this post-1850 era, the potential of the unseen reality of nature is cast aside and replaced with the certainty of the everyday-the violence of man against man, the struggle for power and the destruction of nature itself.
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Prologue: 'The Sublime and Solemn Effect' Introduction: Science and the Romantic Vision Chapter 1: Nature and the Galvanic Science of Johann Wilhelm Ritter: Der Freischu?tz (1821) Chapter 2: Mesmerism and the Power of 'Magnetic Sleep': Robert le diable (1831) Chapter 3: Madness, Medical Science and the Sound of Disease: Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) Chapter 4: Positivism and the Darwinian Revolution: Faust (1859) Epilogue: Science, Opera and the Romantic Vision Today: Dr. Atomic (2005) Bibliography Index
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