The Austrian Enlightenment and its Aftermath

Edited by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson

Austrian Studies 2

Edinburgh University Press

30 July 1991  •  246pp

ISBN: 978-0-748602-36-0 (hardback) (out of print)

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Focusing on Austrian culture between 1780 and the "revolution of the intellectuals" in 1848, "The Austrian Enlightenment and Its Aftermath" traces the growth and continuation of liberal ideals in a period of both repression and cultural flowing. Derek Beales asks whether Joseph II was simply an enlightened despot; Peter Horwath looks at the patrotic cult which inspired the utopian novel "Dya-Na-Sore"; and Joseph Strelka studies the Josephinist intellectual, Gottlieb von Leon. Masonic song and the development of the "Kunstlied", the complexities of the Biedermeier, Stifter's place in the Austrian Enlightenment, and the continuing tradition of the Catholic Enlightenment are also covered.

Contents:

Articles
1

Was Joseph II an Enlightened Despot?
Derek Beales

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22

Joseph Rohrer and the Bureaucratic Enlightenment
Ritchie Robertson

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43

The Altar of the Fatherland: Wilhelm Friedrich von Meyern's Utopian Novel Dya-Na-Sore
Peter Horwath

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59

Gottlieb von Leon and his Rabbinische Legenden
Joseph P. Strelka

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71

Masonic Song and the Development of the Kunstlied in Enlightenment Vienna
Ewan West

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88

The Biedermeier Anomaly: Cultural Conservatism and Technological Progress
Roger Paulin

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102

Stifter and the Enlightenment
Eve Mason

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117

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the Tradition of the Catholic Enlightenment
Eda Sagarra

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132

Charles Sealsfield and the Novel as a Means of Enlightenment
Hartmut Steinecke

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145

Josephinism, 'Austrianness', and the Revolution of 1848
R. J. W. Evans

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161

Austrian Writers of the Enlightenment and Biedermeier: A Biographical Directory
Edward Timms, Ritchie Robertson

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Review Articles
171

The Austrian Enlightenment: An Essay on Publications, 1975-1990
Leslie Bodi

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188

The Mozart Bicentenary
Peter Branscombe

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194

Histories of the Viennese Jews
Sander L. Gilman

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201

Review of H. C. Robbins Landon, David Wyn Jones, Haydn: His Life and Music
Ewan West

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202

Review of Jeanne Benay, Briefe von und an Friedrich Kaiser
W. E. Yates

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203

Review of Miriam J. Levy, Governance and Grievance: Habsburg Policy and Italian Tyrol in the Eighteenth Century
H. M. Scott

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205

Review of Lawrence Sondhaus, The Habsburg Empire and the Sea: Austrian Naval Policy, 1797-1866
Lothar Hobelt

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206

Review of Alan Sked, The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire
Steven Beller

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207

Review of Otto Dahinten, Geschichte der Stadt Bistritz in Siebenbürgen
R. J. W. Evans

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207

Review of Franz Greszl, Ofen-Buda: Entwicklungsgeschichte der königlichen Residenzstadt Ungarns im 18. Jahrhundert
R. J. W. Evans

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207

Review of Carl Gollner, Die Siebenbürger Sachsen in den Jahren 1848-1918
R. J. W. Evans

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207

Review of Hans Rothe, Deutsche in der Habsburger Monarchie
R. J. W. Evans

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210

Review of Karl Kraus, Frühe Schriften, I, II
Gilbert J. Carr

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210

Review of Karl Kraus, Erläuterungen
Gilbert J. Carr

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210

Review of Rainer Dittrich, Die literarische Moderne der Jahrhundertwende im Urteil der österreichischen Kritik
Gilbert J. Carr

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212

Review of Friedrich Schroder, Die Gestalt des Verführers im Drama Hugo von Hofmannsthals
Brian Keith-Smith

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212

Review of Margit Resch, Seltene Augenblicke: Interpretations of Poems by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Brian Keith-Smith

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215

Review of Jeffrey B. Berlin, Hans-Ulrich Lindken, Donald A. Prater, Stefan Zweig, Briefwechsel mit Hermann Bahr, Sigmund Freud, Rainer Maria Rilke und Arthur Schnitzler
Leo A. Lensing

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218

Review of Armin A. Wallas, Texte des Expressionismus: Der Beitrag jüdischer Autoren zur österreichischen Avantgarde
Hanni Mittelmann

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220

Review of Stanley Corngold, Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
Elizabeth Boa

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220

Review of Detlev Kremer, Die Erotik der Schrift
Elizabeth Boa

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221

Review of Lothar Huber, Franz Werfel: An Austrian Writer Reassessed
Andrew Barker

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223

Review of Harald Klauhs, Franz Theodor Csokor: Leben und Werk bis 1938 im Überblick
John Warren

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224

Review of Heinz Steinert, Adorno in Wien: Über die (Un-)Möglichkeit von Kunst, Kultur und Befreiung
Marc A. Weiner

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226

Review of Gemot Heiss, Willfährige Wissenschaft: Die Universität Wien 1938 bis 1945
Robert Knight

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226

Review of Christian Brunner, Helmut Konrad, Die Universität und 1938
Robert Knight

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229

Review of Hinrich Siefken, Theodor Haecker: Tag- und Nachtbücher 1939-1945
Elisabeth Stopp

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Bibliography entry:

Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), The Austrian Enlightenment and its Aftermath (= Austrian Studies, 2 (1991))

First footnote reference: 35 The Austrian Enlightenment and its Aftermath, ed. by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson (= Austrian Studies, 2 (1991)), p. 21.

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

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Bibliography entry:

Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds). 1991. The Austrian Enlightenment and its Aftermath (= Austrian Studies, 2)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Timms and Robertson 1991: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Timms and Robertson 1991: 21.

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