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Kevin Karnes. A Kingdom Not of this World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). x + 256 pp. $74.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2015

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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , December 2015 , pp. 361 - 366
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1 Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (12 January 1751), cited in Eliot, T.S., ‘Milton II’, Essays and Reviews (London and Boston: Faber, 1957): 146Google Scholar.

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4 This phrase comes from the title of Oscar Wilde’s essay, ‘The Decay of Lying – an Observation’, which appeared in his collection, Intentions (London: Methune, 1891).

5 Schorske’s study became particularly influential after it received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1981.

6 On the discursive space of the coffeehouse, see Ashby, Charlotte, Tag Gronberg and Simon Shaw-Miller, eds, The Viennese Cafe and Fin-de-Siècle Culture (New York: Berghan Books, 2013)Google Scholar.

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12 Cultural correspondent Stephen Smith’s remark in the BBC documentary ‘Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau’ (2012); see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fd4z2 (accessed 4 January 2015).