Product Description: Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points...read more

Product Description: Although we usually think of the intellectual legacy of twentieth-century Vienna as synonymous with Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theories, other prominent writers from Vienna were also radically reconceiving sexuality and gender...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fin-de-siècle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siècle Vienna and the model of the relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his work and that of his followers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The five essays in this book examine the connections between literary censorship and the political repression of women in Arthur Schnitzler’s Frau Berta Garlan, Sigmund Freud’s case history of «Dora», and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra - three male representations of female characters in Hapsburg Austria between 1900 and 1905...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Young Vienna and Psychoanalysis examines the parallels and connections between early psychoanalysis and the literary movement known as Young Vienna [Jung-Wien] at the turn of the twentieth century. In particular, it considers Freud’s influence on writers Felix Doermann, Jakob Julius David, and Felix Salten and, reciprocally, the influence of these writers on Freud...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In March 1938, Hitler easily moved his grand design by «annexing» Austria. This «bloodless» coup introduces one of history's most extravagant bloodlettings, the systematic extirpation of, among others, nearly the entirety of central and western Europe's Jewish population...read more