scholarly journals Lyon's Wagnerian Diva: Louise Janssen (1863–1938)

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 214-236
Author(s):  
Katharine Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIt seems historiographically implausible to ascribe the reputation of fin-de-siècle Lyon as France's Bayreuth to the impact of a single middle-ranking soprano, but the Danish singer Louise Janssen's long-term presence, galvanic musical influence and box-office value suggest precisely that conclusion. Part of the explanation lies with the diva-worship of her supporters (‘Janssenistes’), who curated her image both during her career and in her retirement to create an adopted musical heroine whose memory remains guarded by Lyon council policy. That image, selectively constructed from among her Wagner roles, also typecast her as a singer who had much in common with Symbolist art – a potential Mélisande that Lyon never saw. This article brings together archival and press materials to explain how a foreign-born singer's agency and mythification contributed to a double French naturalisation – her own, and that of Wagner(ism).

From Hérodias to Hérodiade: Massenet’s Idiosyncratic Take on the Salomé Myth

Adaptation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-58
Author(s):  
Phaedra Claeys
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Grand Opera

AbstractMassenet’s Hérodiade (1881) is today one of the lesser-known variations of the Salomé myth. Although based on Flaubert’s Hérodias (1877) and written and premiered at the height of the narrative’s popularity, the opera displays some peculiar deviations from both Flaubert’s tale and other, especially fin-de-siècle, renderings of the myth. By situating Hérodiade’s departures from Flaubert’s short story within both the framework of operatic conventions and the broader context of the opera’s genesis, this article highlights Hérodiade’s status as a self-contained rendering, rather than a mere dramatic rewriting of the story—let alone an unfaithful adaptation. In doing so, three main elements that played an essential role in the process of (re)creation are brought to attention: the conventions of grand opera, Massenet’s own aesthetics and interpretation of the tale, and the impact of the socio-political context of France’s Third Republic on the opera’s development.

The Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Interior Decoration ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
The Impact

The 22 newly commissioned essays in this volume re-examine some of the key concepts taken to define the British fin se siècle while also introducing hitherto overlooked cultural phenomena, such as humanitarianism. The impact of research into material culture is explored; specifically, how the history of the book and of performance culture is changing our understanding of this period. A wide range of activities is discussed, from participation in avant-garde theatre to interior decoration, and from the publishing of poetry to forms of political and religious activism. Attention is also given to how the meaning of the fin de siècle is impacted by place, including the significance of cultural exchanges between Britain and countries such as Russia and Italy; the distinctiveness of the Irish and Scottish fin de siècles; as well as activities within different regions of England, such as in the Midlands cities of Birmingham and Nottingham. In contrast to recent research exploring the global or transnational dimensions of the fin de siècle, this volume focuses on micro- rather than macro-cultural issues, the research underpinning these essays highlighting a diversity of practices that developed along different timelines and in different geographical locations, and which do not cohere into any simple pattern. Nor is there any obvious point of their intersection which might be said to mark a cultural turning point. A question the volume as a whole thus aims to pose is whether there is anything to be gained by distinguishing all, of any, of these practices as ‘fin-de-siècle’?

Sidewalk Queens

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Frondizi ◽  
Simon Porcher
Keyword(s):  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Street Prostitution ◽  
Positive Externalities ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

This chapter provides an in-depth historical analysis of prostitution markets in Paris during the 19th century. More specifically, it explores the economic rationalities of the different actors in the informal public prostitution network and how their behavior affects the financial considerations of the other actors in the urban economy. Before discussing the economics of popular prostitutions in fin-de-siècle Paris, the chapter takes a look at streetwalkers and their role in the local economy. It then considers the supply and demand for street prostitutes in Paris, along with the negative externalities of public prostitution in the city. In particular, it examines the impact of street prostitution on regulated brothels, shopkeepers, and annuitants. It also takes into account the positive externalities of street prostitution in relation to wine merchants and slumlords and concludes with an assessment of the red-light district of fin-de-siècle Paris.

Schopenhauer’s Fin de Siècle Reception in Austria

2020 ◽  
pp. 534-555
Author(s):  
Paul Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Hermann Broch ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Impact

This chapter places the reception of Schopenhauer in fin de siècle Austria in its historical context before considering in more detail various areas of intellectual and cultural life where the impact of Schopenhauer has been or may be detected. These include music, Freud and psychoanalysis, gender and misogyny (Weininger and Sacher-Masoch), literature (Karl Kraus, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Rudolf Kassner, and Hermann Broch), philosophy (Fritz Mauthner and Wittgenstein), and visual art (Klimt). Some critics have placed considerable emphasis on the influence of Schopenhauer in these areas, whereas others see his impact as less significant. The chapter concludes by considering Schopenhauer from a characterological angle, arguing that, to the extent that the thinkers, writers, and painters of fin de siècle Austria regarded their intellectual, cultural, and artistic deeds as, in Schopenhauer’s words, “the impression or copy of the character, the mirror of the will,” they were participating in his project of “looking into this mirror” and “recogniz[ing] our innermost self, the kernel of our will.” In this respect it is legitimate to speak of a deep affinity between Schopenhauer and fin de siècle Austria, one that is far more significant than any specific details of his reception.

IRISH POPULAR POLITICS AND THE MAKING OF THE WYNDHAM LAND ACT, 1901–1903

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
FERGUS CAMPBELL
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
British Government ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Land Question ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High Politics

The Wyndham Land Act was the most important land reform introduced by any British government during the period of the Act of Union (1801–1922); and this article provides a new interpretation of the origins of this revolutionary legislation. Whereas previous accounts attribute the Act to the initiative of the Irish chief secretary, George Wyndham, this article locates the legislation in the wider context of both popular and ‘high’ politics. The state of the land question in fin de siècle Ireland is examined, as is the United Irish League's extensive agitation for compulsory land purchase between 1901 and 1903. Finally, the impact of the agitation on the British government is considered, and the article demonstrates that the Wyndham Land Act was introduced as a result of the United Irish League's campaign for land reform.

The origins of Lucia di Lammermoor's cadenza

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROMANA MARGHERITA PUGLIESE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Mad Scene ◽  
The Impact

This article addresses the long-controversial dating of the cadenza with flute in the mad scene of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. New manuscript sources indicate that the famous cadenza dates not from the first half of the nineteenth century, as musicologists had assumed, but from 1889, when it was added to the opera for Nelly Melba’s performances at the Palais Garnier, Paris. The cadenza was most likely composed by Melba’s teacher Mathilde Marchesi to showcase the light voice and virtuosic technique of her student. Once introduced, the cadenza with flute decisively altered the impact and reception of the mad scene. In the first two decades after the opera’s 1835 première, the mad scene had not been particularly popular, perhaps because it contravened contemporary Italian taste for mad scenes featuring docile, virginal heroines. By the fin de siècle, however, the mad scene was regarded as the highlight of the opera, the excesses of the cadenza resonating with the new vogue for violent and hysterical heroines on the operatic stage.

Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arielle Zibrak
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Women's Literature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
New Thought ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The article describes the impact of two popular fin de siècle philosophical movements—Arts and Crafts and New Thought—on both well-known authors like Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the lesser-known writers it reads more closely: Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Madeline Yale Wynne. Although their values were antithetical, Arts and Crafts and New Thought shared striking similarities in the ways they yoked consumption habits to personal well-being and used fiction to understand and endorse popular secular philosophies. These women-led movements shaped enduring national ideologies and the literature of their period, which tends to either synthesize the beliefs of both movements or represent one as patently superior to the other through satire or protest. The recovery of the history of these movements and their contribution to American literature not only retraces a lost genealogy of popular ideas that have shaped our culture, but also demonstrates the centrality of female thinkers and writers to the development of our present-day notions about how to transcend the grinding forces of consumer capitalism in everyday life.

scholarly journals РЕМІНІСЦЕНЦІЇ ВІКТОРІАНСЬКОГО «АВАНГАРДУ» В УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ, ПОЛЬСЬКОМУ ТА РОСІЙСЬКОМУ ОБРАЗОТВОРЧОМУ МИСТЕЦТВІ ДЕКАДАНСУ ТА СИМВОЛІЗМУ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Досліджено вплив англійського мистецтва вікторіанської доби на творчість представників українського, польського та російського мистецтва межі століть. Проаналізовано відмінності у втіленні декадентських й символістських тенденцій, які були характерні для кожної з зазначених країн. Зокрема, розглянуто стилістичні рецепції мистецтва руху прерафаелітів та графіки Обрі Бердслея у творах митців об’єднання «Мир искусства», польських і українських художників-символістів, а також роботах Вільгельма Котарбінського як єдиного представника декадансу в українському образотворчому мистецтві.Ключові слова: декаданс, символізм, прерафаеліти, fin de siècle, Англія, Україна, Польща, Росія. The article studies the impact of English art of the Victorian era on the work of representatives of Ukrainian, Polish and Russian art at the turn of the century. In particular, the reception of the art of the movement of the PreRaphaelites and Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was found in the decadent and symbolist works of artists from these countries. By the way, essential differences in themes and images of Decadent movement and Symbolism among the works of Ukrainian, Polish and Russian artists are identified.Key words: Decadence, Symbolism, Pre Raphaelitas, fin de siècle, England, Ukraine, Poland, Russia.

The “New People” of Decadence in Eastern Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha Dovzhyk
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Eastern European Literature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Zinaida Gippius

This article discusses the interdependent notions of “decadent” and “new” in Russian and Ukrainian writers at the fin de siècle. Eastern European decadence is located at the intersection of not only gender and temporal perspectives, but also spatial ones created by the impact of the colonial situation on the culture of the region. The analysis is not limited to decadent works by such Russian authors as Zinaida Gippius and Leonid Andreyev, but also includes Ukrainian writing produced at the peripheries of the Russian and Astro-Hungarian Empires by Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Olha Kobylianska, who explore androgyny, cross-gendering, and new forms of female intimacy. By looking beyond the imperial Russian capitals of Moscow and St. Petersburg to examine the “new people” of decadence, this chapter decenters traditional views of the region to draw a less predictable landscape of Eastern European literature.

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