Wagner and Culture, Past and Present: Literature, Psychology, and the Visual Arts

A collection of six important essays dealing with national topics-“Wagnerism, Wagnerians, and Italian Identity,” by Marion S. Miller; “Wagner andWagnerian Ideas in Russia,” by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal; “Wagner’s Bayreuth Disciples” and “Art and Politics: Wagnerism in France,” both by Gerald D. Turbow; “At Wagner’s Shrine: British and American Wagnerians,” by Sessa; and “Wagner, Wagnerism, and Musical Idealism,” by Weber-together with an introduction,

conclusions is that, although having been appropriated as man and artist by a variety of political factions over the years, Wagner and his music are “not by nature proto-fascist” (p. 278). Reviewed in Wagner 7/2 (April 1986): 63-65.