Sissis World The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth [Hardcover]

Sissi's Worldoffers 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 Worldexplores 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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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Sissi : The Convergence of Memory and Myth
Maura E. Hametz (Old Dominion University, USA) and Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)

I. Memory
2. Encounters: Ulrike Truger,ElisabethZwang  Flucht  Freiheit,1998/99
Christiane Hertel (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
3. The Remains of the Stay: The Corporeal Archive of Empress Elisabeth in the Hofburg
Beth Ann Muellner (College of Wooster, USA)
4. Sisi Redux: The Empress Elisabeth and Her Cult in Post-Communist Hungary
Judith Szapor (McGill University, Canada) andAndr?s L?n?rt (National Sz?ch?nyi Library, Hungary)
5. A Place for Sissi in Trieste
Maura E. Hametz (Old Dominion University, USA)and Borut Klabjan (European University Institute in Florence, Italy)
6. Empress Elisabeth and thlCz