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Note to the Reader
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3
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1.
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The Composer
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5
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The Jongleur in the Circle of Richard Wagner
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5
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Tannhäuser
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14
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The Medievalesque Oeuvre of Jules Massenet
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20
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The Tall Tale of the Libretto
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30
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The Middle Ages of the Opera
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36
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Sage Wisdom
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49
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Juggling Secular and Ecclesiastical
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51
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The Jongleur of Monte Carlo
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63
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Jean, Bénédictine, and Selling Gothic
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69
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The Musician of Women
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76
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The All-Male Cast
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79
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2.
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The Diva
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85
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Mary Garden Takes America
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85
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Oscar Hammerstein I
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91
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Making a Travesti of Massenet’s Tenor
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94
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Selling the Jongleur
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111
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Mary Garden Dances the Role
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118
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The Role of Dance
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124
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Sexless, Sexy… and What Sex?
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130
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The Jongleur Goes to Notre Dame
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145
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The College Woman as Jongleur: Skirting the Issue
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147
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From Opera to Vaudeville
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152
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3.
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Images of the Virgin
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159
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The Power of Madonnas in the Round
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159
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Madonnas in Majesty
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164
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Animated Images
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174
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Miracles of Madonnas
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178
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4.
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The Crypt
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193
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Grottoes and Crypts
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193
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Madonnas in Crypts
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204
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Cistercian Crypts
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210
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Gothic Crypts
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222
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5.
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Enlightening the Virgin
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229
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The Incandescent Virgin
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229
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Dressing Madonnas: What Are You Wearing?
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236
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Carrying a Torch for Mary
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241
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Lighting Effects: Lights, Camera, Action!
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246
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Voyeurism and Performance Art
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253
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6.
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Cloistering the USA: Everybody Must Get Stones
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259
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Stony Silence
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259
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Collecting Clusters of Cloisters
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263
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A Gothic Room of Her Own: Vanderbilt and Gardner
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274
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Raymond Pitcairn and the “New Church”
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282
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The Hearst Castle
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285
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The Last Hurrah
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288
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7.
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The Great War and Its Aftermath
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299
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Ruining Europe
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303
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Reims: Martyr City and Cathedral
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307
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Rebuilding Europe in America
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316
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German Expressionism
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319
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French Piety
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321
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Painting the Juggler
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323
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American Gothic
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330
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Notes
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337
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Notes to Chapter 1
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337
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Notes to Chapter 2
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361
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Notes to Chapter 3
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383
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Notes to Chapter 4
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397
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Notes to Chapter 5
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408
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Notes to Chapter 6
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418
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Notes to Chapter 7
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431
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Bibliography
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445
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Abbreviations
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445
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Referenced Works
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445
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List of Illustrations
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477
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Index
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499
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