Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art

Editors' Preface - Vicki P. Stroeher and Justin Vickers
Introduction: Writing About Britten - Philip Reed
The Shock of Exile: Britten and the American Years - Paul Kildea
Britten, Paul Bunyan, and "American-ness" - Vicki P. Stroeher
Collaborating with Corwin, CBS, and the BBC: Britten's Re-entry into British Radio in 1942 - Jenny Doctor
An Empire Built On Shingle: Britten, the English Opera Group, and the Aldeburgh Festival - Justin Vickers
"Save Me From Those Suffering Boys": Britten, John Ireland, and the Venerable Tradition of Uranian Boy Worship in England - Byron Adams
Britten's [and Pears's] "Beloved": Sacred Parlor Song, Passion, and Control in Canticle I - Louis Niebur
Notes of Unbelonging - Lloyd Whitesell
"Take These Tokens That You May Feel Us Near": Remembrance and Renewed Citizenship in Britten's Gloriana - Colleen Renihan
Traces of No: Modularity and Saturation in The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son - Kevin Salfen
Britten and the Augmented Sixth - Christopher Mark
Quickenings of the Heart: Notes on Rhythm and Tempo in Britten - Philip Rupprecht
Reviving Paul Bunyan - Danielle Ward-Griffin
Striking A Compromise: Britten, British Publishers, Soviet Theatres, and the Premieres of Peter Grimes and The Prince of the Pagodas - Thornton Miller
From Boosey & Hawkes to Faber Music: Britten Seeks a "Composer's Place" - Nick Clark
The Man Himself - Lucy Walker
Epilogue: Liminalities and Britten - Vicki P. Stroeher and Justin Vickers
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