Austrian Studies

Now edited by Dr Judith Beniston and Professor Robert Vilain of the University of London, this prestigious annual was relaunched by the MHRA in the autumn of 2003. As before, each volume has a coherent but broadly based theme.

Latest Volume

Volume 16 (2008) entitled From Ausgleich to Jahrhundertwende: Literature and Culture, 1867-1890 is now published both in print and online here.

Forthcoming Volumes

Volume 17, entitled Words and Music, will be published autumn 2009.

Volume 18, entitled Austria and the Alps: Landscape, Culture and National Identity, will be published autumn 2010.

Format

Each annual volume includes a wide range of articles in English, together with a selection of book reviews, with the aim of making recent research accessible to a broadly based international readership.

Scope

The focus is on Austrian culture from 1750 to the present. Literature is considered in relation to psychology, philosophy, political theory, music, theatre, film and the visual arts.

'Austrian' includes the German-language culture of former areas of the Habsburg Empire, such as Prague and the Bukovina, as well as the work of people of Austrian origin living abroad.

Austrian interactions with other linguistic and ethnic groups -- the Jewish communities of Austria-Hungary, for example -- will also be taken into account.

Sample Article

A sample article is available here. Originally published in Austrian Studies 11 (2003), Lisa Silverman's article 'Repossessing the Past? Property, Memory and Austrian-Jewish Narrative Histories' considers the confiscation of Austrian-Jewish property during the Holocaust and its literary representation as a paradigm for examining the theoretical relationship between property and Jewish identity in Central Europe.

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