Tropics of Vienna(English, Hardcover, Bach Ulrich E.)

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Tropics of Vienna(English, Hardcover, Bach Ulrich E.) is written by Bach Ulrich E. and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785331329 (ISBN 10) and 9781785331329 (ISBN 13).

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly evident in the era's colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth, and other representative Austrian writers, it reveals a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations beyond the concept of the "nation-state" prevalent at the time.