Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide / by Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Middlebrow modernism -- Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes -- The timely traditions of Albert Herring -- The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism -- The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch -- Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation.…”
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