{"product_id":"belle-necropolis-9781433119002","title":"Belle Necropolis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, \u003ci\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/i\u003e Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume argues that Habsburg nostalgia is anything but backward looking: instead, images from this glittering Habsburg past become evidence of a culture's sophisticated sense of how and why history is made, in both official and popular spheres. Including the first translation of an original account of Crown Prince Rudolf's suicide at Mayerling in 1889, \u003ci\u003eBelle Necropolis\u003c\/i\u003e argues for Austria's continued reuse of its own history to point the way toward the future rather than simply memorializing a past that only exists as living memories of shared stories, not as a truth in itself. Case studies included here range from imperial stereotypes before 1900 through their adaptations in the film \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: From Mayerling’s Ghosts to Today’s Revenants: An Introduction to the Memory Cultures of Austria – The Persistence of \u003ci\u003eMitteleuropa\u003c\/i\u003e in Memory: The Ghosts of Central Europe – Habsburg Nostalgia as Postmemory, and What Comes After – «Glücklich ist, wer [nicht] vergißt»: From Broadway to the Necropolis – Building the Habsburg Subject: Scholarly Historical Fictions.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039548834135,"sku":"9781433119002","price":63.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433119002.jpg?v=1750944045","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/belle-necropolis-9781433119002","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}