Axel Korner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Axel Korner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Axel |
| FAMILY NAME | Korner |
| SIGNATURE | KÖRNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0074-6350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Commemorating the work of Percy Allum, Paul Ginsborg, Gianni Toniolo and Stuart Woolf
Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective: Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth Century
This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity associated with the production and reception of Italian opera across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges betwee…
Beethoven et la monarchie des Habsbourg
En réexaminant la relation de Beethoven à la monarchie impériale habsbourgeoise, cette contribution remet en cause l’image d’un Beethoven resté proche du peuple et démocrate convaincu. Son intérêt pour les principes de la Révolution française ne l’a pas empêché de prendre ses distances par rapport aux conséquences de ces événements, notamment lors de l’occupation napoléonienne, qu’il a particulièrement mal vécue. L’article met l’accent sur la loy…
Ein Zeitalter Beethovens? Neue Literatur zum Beethovenjahr
Beyond Nationaloper . For a critique of methodological nationalism in reading nineteenth-century Italian and German opera
This article challenges traditional narratives that have tended to highlight the role of opera as a tool of political nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe. Instead, I will show how opera (both the form and the repertoire) served as a means of creating cultural and intellectual connections between peoples, and how it participated in the emergence of a European public. Claims that particular operas played a role in rousing nationalist sentiment…
Challenging intellectual hierarchies. Hegel in Risorgimento political thought: An introduction
The introduction to this special issue rethinks Italy’s liberal tradition and nineteenth-century Italian political thought in transnational perspective, with particular focus on the role of Italian Hegelianism during the emergence of the modern Italian nation state. Starting from an attempt to recast the transnational dimension of the Risorgimento, this co-authored article relates existing studies of Italian Hegelianism to wider trends in intelle…
Britain – the Sicily of Europe?’ Continental Perspectives on Britain’s Amour Propre
One prevalent narrative that sums up the United Kingdom's relationship to Europe recounts the continent's almost blind admiration for the UK as a more advanced 'other' in its northern seas: allegedly Europe looks up to the island's unique political institutions, its tradition of the rule of law and its technological progress. The things Europeans supposedly venerate about the UK can easily be extended to its education system, the civilising missi…
Workers and Nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890–1918, by Jakub Beneš
Many scholars of Central European history today argue for the hybridity of national identities, or the national indifference of people living in ethnically mixed territories. In his meticulously researched book, Jakub Beneš qualifies those approaches, explaining how, around 1900, Czech- and German-speaking workers in the Habsburg Empire came to embrace nationalism in order to achieve socialism. Unlike many other works on Habsburg history, he dist…
Beyond Nation States: New Perspectives on the Habsburg Empire
Starting from a discussion of three new books, the article examines recent developments in Habsburg historiography, which have important implications for the ways historians explain nineteenth-century European history as a whole, and the Empire’s relationship to its many nationalities in particular. Wolfram Siemann’s monumental new biography of Metternich makes a crucial contribution to reassessing the historical context from which the Habsburg m…
Habsburg Post Mortem: Betrachtungen zum Weiterleben der Habsburgermonarchie, by Carlo Moos
In his recent history of the Habsburg Empire (2016; rev. ante, cxxxii [2017], 1,341–3), Pieter Judson shows how elements of the monarchy’s legal and administrative practice survived in its Central European successor states, despite their efforts to distance themselves from imperial legacies. Legacies closer to the Empire’s core are the topic of this wide-ranging survey by Swiss historian Carlo Moos. In Vienna and in Austria’s regional capitals re…
America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865
This book examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s. The book shows how Italian political thought was shaped by debates about the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, but it focuses on the important distinction that while European interest in developments across the Atlantic was keen, this atte…
America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763–1865
America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865
Revolution in Europa 1820–23. Verfassung und Verfassungskultur in den Königreichen Spanien, beider Sizilien und Sardinien-Piemont (Italien in der Moderne, Bd. 19)
Zwischen Sprache und Geschichte: Zum Werk Reinhart Kosellecks, ed. Carsten Dutt and Reinhard Laube
During the past fifty years, no scholar has had a more significant impact on debates in historical theory than Reinhart Koselleck. Historical theory remains a relatively small field within the historical profession. Observers outside our discipline must be surprised at how little some historians think about historical time—the medium of history—which is at the centre of Koselleck’s work. Theory does not mean method. In British debates, Koselleck’…
Verdi and the historians: Politics, passion, and new mezzi di lavoro
Verdi continues to evoke controversy among opera scholars and historians. If under normal circumstances academic disagreement can be reduced to the availability of evidence and questions of methodo
Masked faces. Verdi, Uncle Tom and the unification of Italy
This article explores Italian images of America during the Risorgimento and the time of Italy's unification. At the centre of this investigation are two remarkably painful theatrical representations of life in the New World: Verdi's 1859 opera Un ballo in maschera, set in seventeenth-century Boston; and Rota's 1852 ballet Bianchi e neri, based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's epic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Often performed together during the same evenin…
Jonathan Marwil. Visiting Modern War in Risorgimento Italy
The recent commemorations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy paid relatively little attention to the so-called Second War of Liberation in 1859, which enabled Piedmont-Sardinia to expand into the Italian peninsula, a process that led to the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Only due to the intervention of a powerful French army was Piedmont able to incorporate the Austrian Kingdom of Lombardy. On July 8, 1859, the Frenc…
Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution
Pierpaolo Polzonetti (2011) Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 396 pp., ISBN 9780521897082, £63.00, hard cover How did opera contribute to
Verdi and the Germans. From Unification to the Third Reich
Gundula Kreuzer (2010) Verdi and the Germans. From Unification to the Third Reich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 384 pp., ISBN 9780521519199, £58.00, hard cover Transnational approaches i
Opera and nation in nineteenth‐century Italy: Conceptual and methodological approaches
The article responds to existing debates between historians and musicologists interested in exploring the connection between culture and politics, patriotism and opera, music and the Risorgimento in nineteenth-century Italy. Scholars in both disciplines tend to make assumptions about the nature of this relationship without investigating its content on the basis of methodologically informed archival research. Starting from three specific examples,…
The Frightful Stage. Political Censorship of the Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Music of the Future: Italian Theatres and the European Experience of Modernity between Unification and World War One
This article challenges the common idea of Italy’s obsession with Italian music, and with Verdi in particular, an image which supports stereotypes of Italians as narrowly focused on their own national culture, mentally sealed off from what is happening outside the peninsula. Starting from an analysis of the frequently rather mixed or even negative reception of Verdi’s music in Italy, the article outlines the general crisis which affected Italian …
The Experience of Time as Crisis: On Croce's and Benjamin's Concept of History
In the early decades of the twentieth century the experience of time as crisis became the catalyst for a fundamental reorientation in the relationship between historical materialism and idealism, leading to the rejection of simplistic mechanical concepts of historical time. This reorientation represents a turning point in the history of European ideas, clearly evident in the work of two major thinkers of this period, usually associated with oppos…
Uncle Tom on the Ballet Stage: Italy's Barbarous America, 1850-1900
Giacomo Puccini's Fanciulla del West (1908), which featured the Californian gold fever of 1849, and Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera (1859), set in seventeenth-century Boston, are today probably the most famous Italian representations of America on stage.Although very different in character, both operas present American life as a mixture of exoticism, vice, and violence, far from the idea of a society founded on the high principles of the Eu…
Introduction: The new history of Risorgimento nationalism
The Risorgimento's literary canon and the aesthetics of reception: Some Methodological Considerations
The Experience of Time as Crisis: On Croce's and Benjamin's Concept of History
In the early decades of the twentieth century the experience of time as crisis became the catalyst for a fundamental reorientation in the relationship between historical materialism and idealism, leading to the rejection of simplistic mechanical concepts of historical time. This reorientation represents a turning point in the history of European ideas, clearly evident in the work of two major thinkers of this period, usually associated with oppos…
Beyond Nationaloper . For a critique of methodological nationalism in reading nineteenth-century Italian and German opera
This article challenges traditional narratives that have tended to highlight the role of opera as a tool of political nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe. Instead, I will show how opera (both the form and the repertoire) served as a means of creating cultural and intellectual connections between peoples, and how it participated in the emergence of a European public. Claims that particular operas played a role in rousing nationalist sentiment…
Music of the Future: Italian Theatres and the European Experience of Modernity between Unification and World War One
This article challenges the common idea of Italy’s obsession with Italian music, and with Verdi in particular, an image which supports stereotypes of Italians as narrowly focused on their own national culture, mentally sealed off from what is happening outside the peninsula. Starting from an analysis of the frequently rather mixed or even negative reception of Verdi’s music in Italy, the article outlines the general crisis which affected Italian …
Challenging intellectual hierarchies. Hegel in Risorgimento political thought: An introduction
The introduction to this special issue rethinks Italy’s liberal tradition and nineteenth-century Italian political thought in transnational perspective, with particular focus on the role of Italian Hegelianism during the emergence of the modern Italian nation state. Starting from an attempt to recast the transnational dimension of the Risorgimento, this co-authored article relates existing studies of Italian Hegelianism to wider trends in intelle…
Beyond Nation States: New Perspectives on the Habsburg Empire
Starting from a discussion of three new books, the article examines recent developments in Habsburg historiography, which have important implications for the ways historians explain nineteenth-century European history as a whole, and the Empire’s relationship to its many nationalities in particular. Wolfram Siemann’s monumental new biography of Metternich makes a crucial contribution to reassessing the historical context from which the Habsburg m…
Verdi and the historians: Politics, passion, and new mezzi di lavoro
Verdi continues to evoke controversy among opera scholars and historians. If under normal circumstances academic disagreement can be reduced to the availability of evidence and questions of methodo
Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution
Pierpaolo Polzonetti (2011) Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 396 pp., ISBN 9780521897082, £63.00, hard cover How did opera contribute to
Opera and nation in nineteenth‐century Italy: Conceptual and methodological approaches
The article responds to existing debates between historians and musicologists interested in exploring the connection between culture and politics, patriotism and opera, music and the Risorgimento in nineteenth-century Italy. Scholars in both disciplines tend to make assumptions about the nature of this relationship without investigating its content on the basis of methodologically informed archival research. Starting from three specific examples,…
Uncle Tom on the Ballet Stage: Italy's Barbarous America, 1850-1900
Giacomo Puccini's Fanciulla del West (1908), which featured the Californian gold fever of 1849, and Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera (1859), set in seventeenth-century Boston, are today probably the most famous Italian representations of America on stage.Although very different in character, both operas present American life as a mixture of exoticism, vice, and violence, far from the idea of a society founded on the high principles of the Eu…
A European Revolution?: International Ideas and National Memories of 1848
This book is among the rare contributions to the 150th anniversary of 1848 which takes a completely new, theoretically informed approach. Instead of a traditional social or political history, the auth
The Arrogance of Youth: A Metaphor for Social Change?: The Goldhagen-Debate in Germany as Generational Conflict
"The Arrogance of Youth": A Metaphor for Social Change?: The Goldhagen-Debate in Germany as Generational Conflict, New German Critique, No. 80, Special Issue on the Holocaust (Spring - Summer, 2000), pp. 59-76
A European Revolution? International Ideas and National Memories of 1848
Culture et structure
Cet article explique l’explosion sociale de 1936 par la convergence de trois mouvements, inscrits dans trois domaines et trois temporalités différentes : le temps court de la culture politique du Front populaire, où les occupations prolongent les manifestations de 1934-1936; le temps intermédiaire de la crise économique qui n’a pas pour conséquence de plonger la classe ouvrière dans la misère, mais de lui imposer des contraintes disciplinaires re…
The theatre of social change: Nobility, opera industry and the politics of culture in Bologna between papal privileges and liberal principles
In Bologna, after Rome the second biggest city of the Papal States, the Teatro Comunale played a major role in the city's cultural self-representation from the eighteenth century. After the Unification of Italy local politicians and the rising middle class used the theatre - together with the famous university, the Liceo musicale and the Pinacoteca - to present Bologna as one of the young nation-state's cultural capitals. A study of Bologna's ope…
Local Government and the Meanings of Political Representation: A Case Study of Bologna between 1860 and 1915
Since the early nineteenth century political opposition became a central concept of political representation in constitutional monarchies. While this concept marked the political language of unified Italy on the national level, in local administration the legitimacy of political opposition remained an issue of dispute, as illustrated in this analysis of the political language in Bologna's local council. Local perceptions of national events, like …
Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism
With chapters on theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the monarchy, the conflicts between the peninsula's ancient elites and the rising middle class, and the emergence of new belief systems and of scientific responses to the experience of modernity
Introduction: The new history of Risorgimento nationalism
The Risorgimento's literary canon and the aesthetics of reception: Some Methodological Considerations
The Frightful Stage. Political Censorship of the Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Music of the Future: Italian Theatres and the European Experience of Modernity between Unification and World War One
This article challenges the common idea of Italy’s obsession with Italian music, and with Verdi in particular, an image which supports stereotypes of Italians as narrowly focused on their own national culture, mentally sealed off from what is happening outside the peninsula. Starting from an analysis of the frequently rather mixed or even negative reception of Verdi’s music in Italy, the article outlines the general crisis which affected Italian …
The Experience of Time as Crisis: On Croce's and Benjamin's Concept of History
In the early decades of the twentieth century the experience of time as crisis became the catalyst for a fundamental reorientation in the relationship between historical materialism and idealism, leading to the rejection of simplistic mechanical concepts of historical time. This reorientation represents a turning point in the history of European ideas, clearly evident in the work of two major thinkers of this period, usually associated with oppos…
Uncle Tom on the Ballet Stage: Italy's Barbarous America, 1850-1900
Giacomo Puccini's Fanciulla del West (1908), which featured the Californian gold fever of 1849, and Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera (1859), set in seventeenth-century Boston, are today probably the most famous Italian representations of America on stage.Although very different in character, both operas present American life as a mixture of exoticism, vice, and violence, far from the idea of a society founded on the high principles of the Eu…
Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution
Pierpaolo Polzonetti (2011) Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 396 pp., ISBN 9780521897082, £63.00, hard cover How did opera contribute to
Verdi and the Germans. From Unification to the Third Reich
Gundula Kreuzer (2010) Verdi and the Germans. From Unification to the Third Reich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 384 pp., ISBN 9780521519199, £58.00, hard cover Transnational approaches i
Opera and nation in nineteenth‐century Italy: Conceptual and methodological approaches
The article responds to existing debates between historians and musicologists interested in exploring the connection between culture and politics, patriotism and opera, music and the Risorgimento in nineteenth-century Italy. Scholars in both disciplines tend to make assumptions about the nature of this relationship without investigating its content on the basis of methodologically informed archival research. Starting from three specific examples,…
Masked faces. Verdi, Uncle Tom and the unification of Italy
This article explores Italian images of America during the Risorgimento and the time of Italy's unification. At the centre of this investigation are two remarkably painful theatrical representations of life in the New World: Verdi's 1859 opera Un ballo in maschera, set in seventeenth-century Boston; and Rota's 1852 ballet Bianchi e neri, based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's epic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Often performed together during the same evenin…
Jonathan Marwil. Visiting Modern War in Risorgimento Italy
The recent commemorations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy paid relatively little attention to the so-called Second War of Liberation in 1859, which enabled Piedmont-Sardinia to expand into the Italian peninsula, a process that led to the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Only due to the intervention of a powerful French army was Piedmont able to incorporate the Austrian Kingdom of Lombardy. On July 8, 1859, the Frenc…
Verdi and the historians: Politics, passion, and new mezzi di lavoro
Verdi continues to evoke controversy among opera scholars and historians. If under normal circumstances academic disagreement can be reduced to the availability of evidence and questions of methodo
Zwischen Sprache und Geschichte: Zum Werk Reinhart Kosellecks, ed. Carsten Dutt and Reinhard Laube
During the past fifty years, no scholar has had a more significant impact on debates in historical theory than Reinhart Koselleck. Historical theory remains a relatively small field within the historical profession. Observers outside our discipline must be surprised at how little some historians think about historical time—the medium of history—which is at the centre of Koselleck’s work. Theory does not mean method. In British debates, Koselleck’…
Revolution in Europa 1820–23. Verfassung und Verfassungskultur in den Königreichen Spanien, beider Sizilien und Sardinien-Piemont (Italien in der Moderne, Bd. 19)
America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865
This book examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s. The book shows how Italian political thought was shaped by debates about the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, but it focuses on the important distinction that while European interest in developments across the Atlantic was keen, this atte…
America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763–1865
America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865
Beyond Nation States: New Perspectives on the Habsburg Empire
Starting from a discussion of three new books, the article examines recent developments in Habsburg historiography, which have important implications for the ways historians explain nineteenth-century European history as a whole, and the Empire’s relationship to its many nationalities in particular. Wolfram Siemann’s monumental new biography of Metternich makes a crucial contribution to reassessing the historical context from which the Habsburg m…
Political science (26 works) · History (23 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Art (16 works) · Law (16 works) · History (15 works) · Art history (11 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (8 works)