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Sissi's World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth

Sissi's World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth

Hametz, Maura E.
Schlipphacke, Heidi

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Series: New Directions in German Studies, Book 22

Literary CriticismAustrian & Hungarian History

ISBN10: 1501361686
ISBN13: 9781501361685
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 23 2020
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history.

Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist.

Despite the continuing fascination with the beloved Sissi, the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.

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