Thirty articles dealing with aspects of Austrian literature, graphic arts, architecture, film and popular media are assembled in this new volume which grew out of the annual meeting of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA) which was held at the University of Alberta in April, 2007. The theme of the conference and volume was “sexuality, eroticism and gender” in the “long” twentieth century. Edited by Clemens Ruther of Trinity College, Ireland and Raleigh Whitinger of the University of Alberta, the essays were contributed by scholars working in Canada, Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, the UK and the US.
Clemens Ruthner and Raleigh Whitinger, editors, Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture. Vienna: Peter Lang, 2011.