Vienna 1900: From Altenburg to Wittgenstein Ritchie Robertson
This is the first volume in a multi-disciplinary series devoted to making recent research in Austrian studies available to an international readership. Articles include work on Peter Altenburg's fabricated photographs and unpublished sketches, Karl Kraus's Oscar Wilde, the Austrian Women's Movement, Schnitler's collection of press-cuttings and the writings of Kraus, Freud, Wittels and Irma Karczewska. Review articles assess the latest work on Wittgenstein, Herzl and Freud's Jewish identity. The work should interest academics and graduate students in European history and culture, Jewish studies, European literature and the hisory of psychology, as well as literary critics, cultural historians and the general reader interested in German language culture.