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

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.>

About the author

Maura E. Hametz is Professor of History at Old Dominion University, USA. Her research explores the history of Trieste and the northeastern Adriatic regions since the late nineteenth century with emphasis on the intersections of politics, culture, economy, law, religion, gender, and ethnicity and nationalism. Her major works include In the Name of Italy (2012) and Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954 (2005), and she co-edited Jewish Intellectual Women in Central Europe, 1860-2000 (2012).Heidi Schlipphacke is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Her research focuses on the German Enlightenment and its critique; on kinship and family structures; on post-war German and Austrian literature and film; and on queer and gender studies. She is the author of Nostalgia After Nazism: History, Home and Affect in German and Austrian Literature and Film (2010).

Product details

• Authors: Maura E Hametz, Maura E. (Old Dominion University Hametz, Heidi Schlipphacke
• Assisted by: Maura E. Hametz (Editor), Maura E. (Old Dominion University Hametz (Editor), Imke Meyer (Editor), Heidi Schlipphacke (Editor), Heidi (University of Illinois at Chicago Schlipphacke (Editor), Schlipphacke Heidi (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781501313448
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-1344-8
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: New Directions in German Studi; New Directions in German Studi; New Directions in German Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; austria, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900