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Tables of Contents for Opera
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
2
Acknowledgments
xi
2
Prologue: "All Concord's Born of Contraries"
xiii
Collaborative Research, or Marital Methodologies
xiii
2
Interdisciplinary Work on the "Unnatural Beast"
xv
1
A Note on the Notes
xvi
1. Melodies and Maladies: An Introduction
1
28
Why Opera?
3
8
Why Disease and Opera?
11
7
Why These Diseases and These Operas?
18
11
2. Famous Last Breaths: The Tubercular Heroine
29
32
Diagnosis Despite Mystery: Antonia
30
6
The "Phthisic Beauty" and the Tubercle Bacillus
36
4
The Consumptive Model: The "Tipo Traviata"
40
8
Poverty and Contagion: Mimi
48
13
3. Syphilis, Suffering, and the Social Order: Richard Wagner's Parsifal
61
34
Suffering and Sin
62
6
Syphilis: The Medical Signs of the "Scourge of God"
68
8
Soldiers and Prostitutes
76
7
Sexuality and Social Decline
83
2
Redemption and the Sanctified Heterosexual Ideal
85
2
The "Polyphony" of Wagner's Language
87
8
4. The Pox Revisited: The "Pale Spirochete" in Twentieth-Century Opera
95
28
The Femme Fatale as Femme Malade: Lulu
95
5
The Terrors of Bedlam: "The Rake's Progress"
100
6
The Rake's Progress: Made in the U.S.A.
106
11
From the Top, This Time with Humor: Candide
117
6
5. "Acoustic Contagion": Sexuality, Surveillance, and Epidemics
123
38
Cholera: Danger, Shame, Social Unrest
124
6
Lulu: Lesbian Love and Death
130
3
Bourgeois Un-ease and Homosexual Dis-ease: Death in Venice
133
16
Mario and the Magician: Fascism and the "Paralysis of Will"
149
12
6. Where There's Smoke, There's...
161
34
Tobacco: A History of Double(d) Talk
162
6
Male Bonding versus the Lone Rebel: Les Contes d'Hoffmann and La Fanciulla del West
168
5
Sensual Pleasures and Their Dangers: Il Segreto di Susanna and Il Tabarro
173
5
Sex, Smoking, and Violence: Carmen
178
14
"No Smoking": Medical Knowledge and Social Change
192
3
Epilogue. "Life-and-Death Passions": AIDS and the Stage
195
34
Giving AIDS Meaning(s)
196
6
The "Gay Plague": Angels in America
202
8
The Logic of Contagion: Cholera and AIDS
210
4
"Polluted Blood": Syphilis and AIDS
214
4
"Aesthetic" Epidemics: Tuberculosis and AIDS
218
2
Gay Countermythologies
220
9
Notes
229
58
Photo Credits
287
2
Index
289