| Preface | i |
| Vienna as the Heart of Darkness: Wilhelm Raabe's "Lesser-Germany Politics | 1 |
| Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Bozena: A Czech Maid and the Future of Austria | 19 |
| Fashion and Class in Rosa Mayreder's Fiction | 31 |
| Modes of Nostalgia and Figurations of "Austria" in the Exil(auto)biographien of Richard Beer-Hofmann and Stefan Zweig | 48 |
| How "Belle" Was the "Belle-Epoque" Really? Some Not So "Belle" Reflections of Vienna in the "Belle-Epoque" Mirrors of Kraus, Altenberg, and Petzold | 60 |
| Endings and Beginnings: Musil's Invention of Austrian History | 75 |
| Subliminal Austria: Sigmund Freud in World Literature | 86 |
| On Galician Jews in the Habsburg Monarchy as Depicted in H. W. Katz's Novel Die Fischmanns | 103 |
| Nationalism, Modernity, and Multinational Austria in the Works of Joseph Roth | 120 |
| Separate Reality, Separate Nations? Austria in the Works of Jewish and Non-Jewish Authors | 132 |
| Robert Menasse's Concept of Anti-Heimat Literature | 153 |
| Gerhard Roth's Der See and Josef Haslinger's Opernball: A Comparative Treatment of Contemporary Austria | 166 |
| Post-Bernhardian Austria in Lilian Faschinger's Magdalena Sunderin | 179 |
| 'Black Holes' in the Novels of Christoph Ransmayr: An Astronomical Interpretation of Images of Alternative Worlds in his Work | 193 |
| Underground Austria | 212 |
| American Writers and Austria in the 1930s | 225 |
| Austria in the American Short Story | 243 |
| The Idea of Austria in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood | 256 |
| Schlagobers and Blood: Vienna in John Irving's Novel The Hotel New Hampshire | 276 |
| "I Wept While I Was Dreaming" How to Survive the Holocaust after the Holocaust in Jon Marans' Play Old Wicked Songs | 295 |
| The Image of Austria in Literary Readings From American Textbooks | 309 |
| Name Index | 321 |
