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At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character’s interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in ‘Vienna 1900’.
Baron Moric Kornfeld was a wealthy Hungarian industrialist, philanthropist, and intellectual. These writings represents the views of the author on milestone events in Hungarian history.
Twelve articles on Hungarian American history, including four on Louis Kossuth's tumultuous mid-19th-century visit to the United States following the defeat of the Revolution of 1848-1849; two articles on the political activities of Hungarian Americans during and immediately after World War II, wherein an attempt is made to try to explain Hungary's alliance with Nazi Germany; and one article each on sub-topics of Hungarian American history in general such as the relationship of Hungarian Americans to the mother country since the mid-19th century, the changing image and self-image of Hungarian Americans during the same period, the question of dual and multiple identity from the vantage point of Hungarian Americans, the fate of Hungarian victims of the steel mills and coal mines of early 20th-century Western Pennsylvania as portrayed in contemporary poetry, and the unfortunate relationship between Hungarians and Slovaks in turn-of-the-century America.