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Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire

Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire

Bach, Ulrich E.

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Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies, Book 19

Literary CriticismAustrian & Hungarian History

ISBN10: 1800730144
ISBN13: 9781800730144
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Aug 13 2021
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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