Case studies included here range from imperial stereotypes before 1900 through their adaptations in the film and today’s musicals, and from the politics of representing Austria since Rebecca West up through Schorske’s master narrative of the .

This series provides critical evaluations, in English or German, of Austrian authors, artists, works, currents, or figures from the Middle Ages to the present. Austria is defined as those parts of the old Habsburg empire that produced notable writings in the German language, including Czechoslovakia and the Bukovina (Czernowitz). The series offers a forum for the study of the multifarious relationships between literature and other aspects of Austrian culture, such as philosophy, art and theater.