Sabine Wieber is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Glasgow. She has published on German and Austrian design culture, German national identity and constructions of gender in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (Vienna, 2010).

Note on Contributors

Introduction
Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber

Chapter 1. The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Journeys, Contexts and Dislocations in the Exhibition "Madness and Modernity"
Leslie Topp

Chapter 2. Solving Riddles: Freud, Vienna and the Historiography of Madness
Steven Beller

Chapter 3. Symphonies and Psychosis in Mahler's Vienna
Gavin Plumley

Chapter 4. Creating an Appropriate Social Milieu: Journeys to Health at a Sanatorium for Nervous Disorders
Nicola Imrie

Chapter 5. Travel to the Spas: the Growth of Health Tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914
Jill Steward

Chapter 6. Vienna's Most Fashionable Neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the Cult of Size Zero
Sabine Wieber

Chapter 7. Peter Altenberg: Authoring Madness in Vienna circa 1900
Gemma Blackshaw

Chapter 8. "Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying." A Reading of the Madhouse Chapter in Robert Musil'sThe Man without Qualities

Geoffrey Howes

Chapter 9. Reason Dazzled: Klimt, Krakauer and Eyes of the Medusa
Luke Heighton

Chapter 10. Mapping the Sanatorium: Heinrich Obersteiner and the Art of Psychiatric Patients in Oberdöbling around 1900
Anna Lehninger

Chapter 11. The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried: a Psychiatric Space and its Encounter with Literature and Culture from the Outside
Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn

Bibliography