{"product_id":"richard-wagners-political-ecology-kirsten-s-paige-9780226843537","title":"Richard Wagner's Political Ecology","description":"\u003cb\u003eA study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Richard Wagner's operas are bursting with environmental imagery, from tittering birds to flowing rivers to towering trees. In \u003ci\u003eRichard Wagner's Political Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e, Kirsten S. Paige asks where Wagner's environmental imagination came from, how it was received by audience members and reconceived by stage directors, and how it refracts his politics and shapes their legacies. By tracing ecological dimensions of the composer's essays and dramas, Paige reveals how Wagner's environmental imagination was inextricable from broader political concerns of his time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book begins by examining the way Wagner's political ecology shape-shifted across its rhetorical, musical, scenographic, and technological permutations. Although Wagner's essays and dramas invite a range of interpretations, for Paige, they point to an all-encompassing image of music drama-as-climate. The book then turns to the ways Wagnerian drama--and opera more generally--at once participates in the industrial-technological lineage of climate change and helps spectators grapple with the challenges of living in a warming world. In providing the first close examination of Wagner's artistic thought, practice, and reception in relation to nineteenth-century climate theory and the early history of environmentalism, \u003ci\u003eRichard Wagner's Political Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e considers what it might mean to reimagine opera around ethical mandates of sustainability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kirsten S. Paige\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022684353X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226843537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2026 pg. 72","brand":"Kirsten S. Paige","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48460244058367,"sku":"9780226843537","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed866171-2676-4fad-8dfa-5b37006f4aa0.jpg?v=1777413484","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/richard-wagners-political-ecology-kirsten-s-paige-9780226843537","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}