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Sissi’s World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth de Dr. Maura E. Hametz

Sissi’s World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth: New Directions in German Studies

Editat de Dr. Maura E. Hametz, Heidi Schlipphacke
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2020
Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist.Despite the continuing fascination with "the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501361685
ISBN-10: 1501361686
Pagini: 408
Ilustrații: 30 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria New Directions in German Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Features interdisciplinary scholarship that invites transcultural reflections on historical narrative, national and cultural identity, gender and cultural stereotypes, and artificial hierarchies between high and low culture

Notă biografică

Maura E. Hametz is Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Her research explores the history of Trieste and the northeastern Adriatic regions since the late 19th century with emphasis on the intersections of politics, culture, economy, law, religion, gender, and ethnicity and nationalism. Her major works include In the Name of Italy (2012) and Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954 (2005), and she co-edited Jewish Intellectual Women in Central Europe, 1860-2000 (2012). Heidi Schlipphacke is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Her research focuses on the German Enlightenment and its critique, kinship and family structures, post-war German and Austrian literature and film, and queer and gender studies. She is the author of Nostalgia After Nazism: History, Home and Affect in German and Austrian Literature and Film (2010).

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: "Sissi": The Convergence of Memory and MythMaura E. Hametz (Old Dominion University, USA) and Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)I. Memory2. Encounters: Ulrike Truger, Elisabeth - Zwang - Flucht - Freiheit, 1998/99Christiane Hertel (Bryn Mawr College, USA)3. The Remains of the Stay: The Corporeal Archive of Empress Elisabeth in the HofburgBeth Ann Muellner (College of Wooster, USA)4. Sisi Redux: The Empress Elisabeth and Her Cult in Post-Communist HungaryJudith Szapor (McGill University, Canada) and András Lénárt (National Széchényi Library, Hungary)5. A Place for Sissi in TriesteMaura E. Hametz (Old Dominion University, USA) and Borut Klabjan (European University Institute in Florence, Italy)6. Empress Elisabeth and the Painting of Modern LifeOlivia Gruber Florek (Delaware County Community College, USA) 7. Karl Lagerfeld and the Elisabeth MythCarolin Maikler (Independent Scholar, Switzerland); Translated by Marieanne Gilliat-Smith8. Sissi, the Chinese Princess: A Timely and Versatile Post-Mao IconFei-Hsien Wang and Ke-chin Hsia (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)II. Myth9. Melancholy Empress: Queering Empire in Ernst Marischka's Sissi FilmsHeidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)10. Sisi: A Double Reflection on a "Queer Icon"Susanne Hochreiter (University of Vienna, Austria)11. Imagining Austria: Myths of "Sisi" and National Identity in Lilian Faschinger's Wiener PassionAnita McChesney (Texas Tech University, USA)12. Cocteau's Queen: Sissi between Legend, Spectacle, and History in L'Aigle à deux têtesElizabeth Black (Old Dominion University, USA)13. Fat, Thin, Sad - Victoria, Sissi, Diana and the Fate of Wax QueensKate Thomas (Bryn Mawr College, USA)14. Sisi in the Museum: Exhibits in Vienna and the USSusanne Kelley (Kennesaw State University, USA)Notes on ContributorsIndex

Recenzii

Given the general lack of academic research on the 'Sissi' phenomenon, this volume fills a scholarly void, going beyond the often hagiographical historical accounts and appropriation of her image to interrogate what has been going on beneath such surface manifestations . The editors have judiciously selected trans-disciplinary approaches that go beyond the marketing of an image to excavate how and why [Sissi's] memory and attendant mythology retain their hold on people the world over . This volume . stands out for the quality and consistency of its individual chapters and contains a comprehensive bibliographical apparatus that will be useful to scholars, students, and interested readers alike. The editors are clearly well read in theory and cultural history, bringing nuanced perspectives to the wide range of essays collected here. Handsomely presented with no lacunae, it is part of the exciting series 'New Directions in German Studies' from Bloomsbury and is a valuable addition to Austrian studies, broadly defined.
Excellent and engaging.It is a collection best read, in my opinion, from cover to cover, for this is the only way to fully appreciate how well its chapters cohere around its fragmented and protean subject.
Many anthologies suffer from unevenness in the quality of the contributions, but not this one- each of the individual chapters is compelling and largely unique, with only minor overlap across several contributions. The editors are to be congratulated on compiling such a readable, accessible volume that considers this fascinating topic so thoroughly.
From Trieste to Beijing, these riveting essays analyze the highly situational character of our obsessions with the restless Empress. From her renowned hair and waist to the rigid control she exercised over her public image, these essays show how Elisabeth's imagined personality has served us as a screen for a surprising range of fantasies, from 1950s femininity to the contemporary queer and subversive.
Empress Elisabeth of Austria embodied the contradictions of monarchical rule in life and death. Revered yet deeply unhappy; a figure of national imagination yet profoundly rootless; bathed in splendor yet bodily starved. Despite or perhaps because of that incongruity, she remains a projection screen of imperial longing, reminding us of inextricable links between history, memory, and nostalgia in the realm of the former Habsburg Monarchy. Sissi's World grapples in novel ways with the complex tensions reflected in the figure of Empress Elisabeth.
This remarkable collection of essays on the memory and myth of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth, known as Sissi, is a long-awaited compendium of research and contextualization that ranges far beyond the popular hagiography to offer wholly fresh analysis of the subject as a complex woman, enlightened royal, and uniquely enduring and influential cultural icon. Editors Maura Hametz and Heidi Schlipphacke have drawn together international scholars, transdisciplinary aspects, and diverse critical approaches for a superbly executed expansion of literature on Elisabeth - as she was in her world and as she continues to find resonance in ours. Sissi's World is essential reading that will inspire serious investigation on the subject for some time to come.
Its perceptive analyses, global reach, and interdisciplinary scope make Sissi's World an impressive accomplishment. [.] [T]he volume offers much fascinating material, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Austrian culture and gender studies.