TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bach,Ulrich E.
TI  - Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire 
T2  - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
SN  - 9781785331329
U1  - 830.9/943613 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Austrian literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Austria
KW  - Vienna
KW  - Colonies in literature
KW  - Utopias in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cultural Studies (General), History: 18th/19th Century, History: 20th Century to Present
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch --; Chapter 2 Lazar von Hellenbach: Utopia or Theosophy --; Chapter 3 Theodor Hertzka: Seeking Emptiness --; Chapter 4 Theodor Herzl: Vienna in Palestine --; Chapter 5 Robert Müller: Anti-Exoticism, and Joseph Roth: Finis Austriae --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly evident in the era’s colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth, and other representative Austrian writers, it reveals a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations beyond the concept of the “nation-state” prevalent at the time
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785331336?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785331336
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785331336/original
ER  -