Catholicism and Austrian Culture

Edited by Judith Beniston and Ritchie Robertson

Austrian Studies 10

Edinburgh University Press

27 September 1999  •  224pp

ISBN: 978-0-748613-07-6 (hardback) (out of print)

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This volume offers eight essays in cultural history, dealing with the intimate connection of Roman Catholic devotion - and its opposite, anticlericalism - with Austrian culture from the 17th century to the 20th.

Contents:

3
Popular Piety and the Autobiography of Athanasius Kircher, SJ
Howard Louthan
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16
Cardinal Migazzi and Reform Catholicism in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
T. J. Hochstrasser
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32
Zacharias Werner and the Hofbauer Circle: the Question of Toleration
Colin Walker
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51
Popular Catholicism in Vormdrz Austria, 1800-48
William D. Bowman
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65
Anti-clericalism in Literary Journalism of the Liberal Era: Ferdinand Kürnberger, Friedrich Schlogl, Daniel Spitzer and Ludwig Anzengruber
Ulrike Tanzer
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79
Religious Art and Modernity in the Austro-Hungarian Empire around 1900
Ilona Sarmany-Parsons
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101
Cultural Politics in the First Republic: Hans Brecka and the 'Kunststelle für christliche Volksbildung'
Judith Beniston
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119
Writers and the Language of Prayer: Secularisation in the Austrian Literature of the 1970s
Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler
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Review Articles
139
The Schubert Year in Retrospect
Peter Branscombe
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148
Review of David Martin Luebke, His Majesty's Rebels: Communities, Factions and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725-1745
Charles Ingrao
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149
Review of T. C. W. Blanning and David Cannadine, History and Biography. Essays in Honour of Derek Beales
T. J. Hochstrasser
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149
Review of Greta Klingenstein and Franz A. J. Szabo, Staatskanzler Wenzel Anton von Kaumtz-Rietberg 1711-1794
T. J. Hochstrasser
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152
Review of Paul Bryan, Johann Wanhal, Viennese Symphonist
Peter Branscombe
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153
Review of Leslie Bodi and Friedrich H. Voit, Paul Weidmann, Der Eroberer
Ritchie Robertson
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154
Review of Joseph P. Strelka, Zwischen Louisiana und Solothurn. Zum Werk des Österreich-Amerikaners Charles Sealsfield
Jeffrey L. Sammons
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156
Review of Emil Brix and Hannes Stekl, Der Kampf um das Gedächtnis: Öffentliche Gedenktage in Mitteleuropa
Nancy M. Wingfield
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158
Review of Richard G. Plaschka, Horst Haselsteiner and Anna M. Drabek, Mitteleuropa-Idee, Wissenschaft und Kultur im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
R. J. W. Evans
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159
Review of David F. Good, Margarete Grandner and Mary Jo Maynes, Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Allyson Fiddler
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161
Review of Joseph P. Strelka, Für all, was Menschen je erfahren ... Beiträge zu Franz Grillparzers Werk
Alexander Stillmark
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163
Review of Florian Krobb, Leopold Kompert, Der Dorfgeher: Geschichten aus dem Ghetto
Hannah Burdekin
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164
Review of Andrew Barker, Telegrams from the Soul: Peter Altenberg and the Culture of fin-de-siècle Vienna
Jens Rieckmann
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166
Review of Dominik Pietzcker, Richard von Schaukal: Ein osterreichischer Dichter der Jahrhundertwende
Florian Krobb
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167
Review of Martin Leubner, Karl Kraus' Literatur oder Man wird doch da sehn. Genetische Ausgabe und Kommentar
Gilbert J. Carr
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170
Review of Jonathan Carr, The Real Mahler
Christopher Hailey
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170
Review of Peter Franklin, The Life of Mahler
Christopher Hailey
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173
Review of Judith Beniston, 'Welttheater': Hofmannsthal, Richard von Kralik, and the Revival of Catholic Drama in Austria, 1890-1934
Brian Keith-Smith
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175
Review of Jiirgen Doll, Theater im Roten Wien: Vom sozialdemokratischen Agitprop zum dialektischen Theater Jura Soyfers
Judith Beniston
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177
Review of Otto Tost, Die Antike als Motiv und Thema in Hermann Brochs Roman Der Tod des Vergil'
David Horrocks
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177
Review of Jürgen Heizmann, Antike und Moderne in Hermann Brochs 'Tod des Vergil': Über Dichtung und Wissenschaft,Utopie und Ideologie
David Horrocks
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179
Review of Brigitte Hamann, Hitlers Wien: Lehrjahre eines Diktators
Marsha L. Rozenblit
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181
Review of Caroline Markolin, Modern Austrian Writing: A Study Guide for Austrian Literature 1945-1990
Andrea Reiter
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182
Review of Karlheinz F. Auckenthaler, Lauter Einzelfälle. Bekanntes und Unbekanntes zur neueren bsterreichischen Literatur
Brian Keith-Smith
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182
Review of Tamas Lichtmann, Nicht (aus, in, über, von) Österreich. Zur österreichischen Literatur, zu Celan, Bachmann, Bernhard und anderen
Brian Keith-Smith
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184
Review of Uwe Schütte, Auf der Spur des Vergessenen: Gerhard Roth and seine Archive des Schweigens
Simon Ryan
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Bibliography entry:

Beniston, Judith, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), Catholicism and Austrian Culture (= Austrian Studies, 10 (1999))

First footnote reference: 35 Catholicism and Austrian Culture, ed. by Judith Beniston and Ritchie Robertson (= Austrian Studies, 10 (1999)), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Beniston and Robertson, p. 47.

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Beniston, Judith, and Ritchie Robertson (eds). 1999. Catholicism and Austrian Culture (= Austrian Studies, 10)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Beniston and Robertson 1999: 21).

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