This issue of Austrian Studies assembles articles that represent the great variety of travel writing by authors from Austria and the Habsburg lands. Contributions investigate examples of ‘heroic’ exploratory travel of the 19th century and its colonialist implications, journalistic and impressionistic narratives from the fin-de-siècle to the 1940s, and private and ‘official’ notation by prominent and lesser known authors. Writings of classical modernism demonstrate how optimistic, horizon-expanding travel endured, but also how changing political circumstances and cultural norms undermined the confident optimism of traditional travel narratives. Diversifying perspectives, including those of female travellers, as well as new means of expression and aesthetic innovation progressively challenged old certainties. The range of the genre of travel writing is illustrated by contributions on Bohemian spas, the medium of the Lied cycle and notations by emigrants in transit, while the legacy of the covid-19 pandemic and the future of travel in a climate-changed world are to the fore in analyses of travel writing today.
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Don't Go! Some Agoraphobic Postulates for a Post-Travel World Derived from Ingeborg Bachmann's 'Probleme Probleme' Rachel Magshamhráin doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919421
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'Costa Rica, der ruhigste und glücklichste von sämmtlichen Freistaaten des spanischen Amerika': Karl von Scherzer and Moritz Wagner in Central America and their Texts about Costa Rica, 1854–1855 Laurin Blecha doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919422
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Writing from the Periphery: Alma Karlin's Autobiography, Travel Writing and the Journey towards Self-Discovery Nicole Perry doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919426
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The Libyan Desert as a Space of Experience: Richard A. Bermann as Chronicler of the 1933 Almásy-Expedition Andreas Stuhlmann doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919428
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Review of Markéta Křížová and Jitka Malečková (eds), Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century; Michael Falser, Habsburgs Going Global: The Austro-Hungarian Concession in Tientsin/Tianjin in China (1901–1917) Matthew Stibbe doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919432
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Review of Gertrude Enderle-Burcel (ed.), Heinrich Wildner Tagebücher 1938–1944 ("Heute geht es gegen die Juden, morgen kann es gegen die anderen gehen…"); Roman Eccher et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1945 ("Ich bestelle Sie hiemit zur Leitung des Außenamtes,…"); Roman Eccher et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1946 ("...freilich werden wir im neuen Jahr noch nicht frei werden..."); Elisabeth Gmoser et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1947 ("Man ist noch immer nervös. Wir sind sehr scharf bewacht"); Ernst Aichinger et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1948 ("Es regiert der Planet Pallawatsch"); Josef Litschauer et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1949 ("Wie soll das weiter gehen?") R. Knight doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919435
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Review of Klaus Kastberger and David J. Wimmer (ed.), Glitches, Bots und Strahlenkatzen. Gegenwart bei Clemens J. Setz Heide Kunzelmann doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919436
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Review of Nicole Robertson, Arthur Schnitzler in Great Britain: An Examination of Power and Translation Martin Anton Müller doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919438
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Review of Norbert Christian Wolf, Glanz und Elend der Aufklärung in Wien: Voraussetzungen—Institutionen—Texte Ritchie Robertson doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919444
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23 February 2024