Axel Körner - Selected Publications#

Monographs:

America in Italy. The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017; 349 pp. (single author)

Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy. From Unification to Fascism. New York: Routledge, 2009; 2nd ed. pb 2011; 427 pp. (single author)

Das Lied von einer anderen Welt. Kulturelle Praxis im französischen und deutschen Arbeitermilieu, 1840-1890. Frankfurt / New York: Campus, 1997, 398 pp. (single author)

Edited collections:

Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective: Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022 (co-editor and -author with Paulo Kühl)

Hegel in Italy: Risorgimento Political Thought in Transnational Perspective. Special Issue: Journal of Modern Italian Studies 24/2 (March 2019), (co-editor and –author, with Fernanda Gallo)

Remapping Centre and Periphery: Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Context, Tessa Hauswedell, Axel Körner, Ulrich Tiedau, eds, London: UCL Press, 2019 (co-editor and –author)

America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America, Axel Körner, Nicola Miller, Adam I. P. Smith, eds, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (co-editor and –author)

Opera and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Italy. Special Issue: Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 17/4, September 2012 (guest editor and co-author)

1848 - A European Revolution? International Ideas and National Memories of 1848. Basingstoke / London: Macmillan, 2000; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000; 2nd rev. ed. pb. London: Palgrave, 2003 (editor and co-author)

Selection of articles and book chapters:

“Between Poetry and Politics. Reconnecting the lives of Carlo Pepoli”, Bollettino di Studi Belliniani VII (2021), 5-29

“Beyond Nationaloper. For a Critique of Methodological Nationalism in Reading Nineteenth-Century Italian and German Opera”, Journal of Modern Italian Studies 25/4 (2020), 402-419

“Che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi. The Venetian premiere of La traviata and Austria’s imperial administration in 1853”, Verdiperspektiven 3 (2018), 89-106

“Culture for a Cosmopolitan Empire: Rossini between Vienna and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown”, in: Ilaria Narici, Emilio Sala, Emanuele Senici, Ben Walton, eds, Gioachino Rossini 1868-2018: La musica e il mondo. (Saggi e fonti, 5). Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 2018, 357-380

“National Movements against Nation States. Bohemia and Lombardy between the Habsburg Empire, the German Confederation and Piedmont”, in: Douglas Moggach and Gareth Stedman Jones, eds, The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 345-382

“From Hindustan to Brabant: Meyerbeer’s Africana and Municipal Cosmopolitanism in Post-Unification Italy”, Cambridge Opera Journal 29/1 (March 2017), 74-93

“Transnational History: Identities, Structures, States“, in: Barbara Haider-Wilson, William D. Godsey, Wolfgang Mueller, eds, International History in Theory and Practice. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017, 265-290

“Dalla storia transnazionale all’opera transnazionale. Per una critica delle categorie nazionali”, Saggiatore Musicale XXIV (2017/1), 81-98

“Oper, Politik und nationale Bewegung. Mythen um das Werk Giuseppe Verdis“, in: Hannes Siegrist and Thomas Höpel, eds, Kunst, Politik und Gesellschaft in Europa seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. (Europäische Geschichte in Quellen und Essays, Bd. 3). Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner-Verlag, 2017, 99-110

“Italien in Europa und der Welt: Opernpublikum und die Erfahrung gesellschaftlichen Wandels um 1900”, in: Richard Erkens, ed., Puccini-Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2017, 30-39

“Lokale und transnationale Dimensionen sakralisierter Politik. Nationale Bewegung und Zivilgesellschaft im liberalen Italien“, Historische Zeitschrift 300/3 (June 2015), 698-719

“Masked faces. Verdi, Uncle Tom and the Unification of Italy”, Journal of Modern Italian Studies 18/2, (March 2013), 176-189

“Uncle Tom on the Ballet Stage: Italy’s Barbarous America, 1850 - 1900”, The Journal of Modern History, 83/4 (December 2011), 721-752

“The Experience of Time as Crisis. On Croce’s and Benjamin’s Concepts of History”, Intellectual History Review, 21 (2) 2011, 151-169

“Music of the Future: Italian Theatres and the European Experience of Modernity between Unification and World War One”, European History Quarterly, 41/2 (April 2011), 189 - 212

“The Risorgimento's literary canon and the aesthetics of reception: some methodological considerations”, Nations and Nationalism, 15/3 (July 2009), 410-418

“Ein soziales „Dramma in musica“? Verdi, alte Notabeln und neue Eliten im Theater des liberalen Italiens”, Historische Zeitschrift, vol.287 (August 2008), 61-89