The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur

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Contents Note to the Reader 1. The Composer The Jongleur in the Circle of Richard Wagner Tannhäuser The Medievalesque Oeuvre of Jules Massenet The Tall Tale of the Libretto The Middle Ages of the Opera Sage Wisdom Juggling Secular and Ecclesiastical The Jongleur of Monte Carlo Jean, Bénédictine, and Selling Gothic The Musician of Women The All-Male Cast 2. The Diva Mary Garden Takes America Oscar Hammerstein I Making a Travesti of Massenet’s Tenor Selling the Jongleur Mary Garden Dances the Role The Role of Dance Sexless, Sexy… and What Sex? The Jongleur Goes to Notre Dame The College Woman as Jongleur: Skirting the Issue From Opera to Vaudeville 3. Images of the Virgin The Power of Madonnas in the Round Madonnas in Majesty Animated Images Miracles of Madonnas 4. The Crypt Grottoes and Crypts Madonnas in Crypts Cistercian Crypts Gothic Crypts 5. Enlightening the Virgin The Incandescent Virgin Dressing Madonnas: What Are You Wearing? Carrying a Torch for Mary Lighting Effects: Lights, Camera, Action! Voyeurism and Performance Art 6. Cloistering the USA: Everybody Must Get Stones Stony Silence Collecting Clusters of Cloisters A Gothic Room of Her Own: Vanderbilt and Gardner Raymond Pitcairn and the “New Church” The Hearst Castle The Last Hurrah 7. The Great War and Its Aftermath Ruining Europe Reims: Martyr City and Cathedral Rebuilding Europe in America German Expressionism French Piety Painting the Juggler American Gothic Notes Notes to Chapter 1 The Jongleur in the Circle of Richard Wagner Tannhäuser The Medievalesque Oeuvre of Jules Massenet The Tall Tale of the Libretto The Middle Ages of the Opera Sage Wisdom Juggling Secular and Ecclesiastical Jean, Bénédictine, and Selling Gothic The Musician of Women The All-Male Cast Notes to Chapter 2 Mary Garden Takes America Oscar Hammerstein I Making a Travesti of Massenet’s Tenor Selling the Jongleur Mary Garden Dances the Role The Role of Dance Sexless, Sexy… and What Sex? The Jongleur Goes to Notre Dame The College Woman as Jongleur From Opera to Vaudeville Notes to Chapter 3 The Power of Madonnas in the Round Madonnas in Majesty Animated Images Miracles of Madonnas Notes to Chapter 4 Grottoes and Crypts Madonnas in Crypts Cistercian Crypts Gothic Crypts Notes to Chapter 5 The Incandescent Virgin Dressing Madonnas: What Are You Wearing? Carrying a Torch for Mary Lighting Effects: Lights, Camera, Action! Voyeurism and Performance Art Notes to Chapter 6 Stony Silence Collecting Clusters of Cloisters A Gothic Room Raymond Pitcairn and the “New Church” The Hearst Castle The Last Hurrah Notes to Chapter 7 Ruining Europe Reims: Martyr City and Cathedral Rebuilding Europe in America German Expressionism French Piety Painting the Juggler American Gothic Bibliography Abbreviations Referenced Works List of Illustrations Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Notes Index