Culture and Sacrifice : Ritual Death in Literature and Opera (Paperback)

1. Human sacrifice, ancient and modern; 2. Greece; 3. Virgil to Augustine; 4. The discovery of America; 5. Shakespeare and the economics of sacrifice; 6. Britain and America: Dryden, Behn, and Defoe; 7. Lieto Fine: Baroque and Enlightenment sacrifice; 8. The French Revolution to Napoleon; 9. The secularization of sacrifice; 10. Gothic sacrifice; 11. Wagner; 12. The second coming of Dionysius; 13. Pentheus 1913; 14. Sparagmos; 15. Hitler and after; Bibliography.