This title is both a telling of operatic histories 'after' Richard Wagner, and a philosophical reflection upon the writing of those histories. Historical musicology reckons with intellectual and cultural history, and vice versa. The 'after' of the title denotes a chronology, but…
"More Artists of the Right, K.R. Bolton's companion to his 2012 volume Artists of the Right, explores the work of seven artists who also made contributions to Right-wi[n]g political thought: composer and essayist Richard Wagner, occultist and poet Aleister Crowley, poet and crit…
Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as The Flying Dutchman, …