• IntroductionEmpiricist Empires: Hofmannsthal's Domestic OrientalismEmpirical Mysticism and Imperial Mystique: Orientalism inMusil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings TörlessThe Sovereign Subject under Siege: Ethnology andEthnocentrism in Kafka's "Description of a Struggle,"Jackals und Arabs," and "In the Penal Colony"The Contingent Continent: Kafka's China in "Beim Bauder chinesischen Mauer" and "Ein altes Blatt"ConclusionWorks Cited

With his book Robert Lemon delivers a valuable contribution to the topic of orientalism in German-language literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lemon's work fills a gap in current scholarship, which for the most part has been lacking any focused treatment of orientalism in the context of Austro-Hungarian literature.

• IntroductionEmpiricist Empires: Hofmannsthal's Domestic OrientalismEmpirical Mysticism and Imperial Mystique: Orientalism inMusil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings TörlessThe Sovereign Subject under Siege: Ethnology andEthnocentrism in Kafka's "Description of a Struggle,"Jackals und Arabs," and "In the Penal Colony"The Contingent Continent: Kafka's China in "Beim Bauder chinesischen Mauer" and "Ein altes Blatt"ConclusionWorks Cited

With his book Robert Lemon delivers a valuable contribution to the topic of orientalism in German-language literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lemon's work fills a gap in current scholarship, which for the most part has been lacking any focused treatment of orientalism in the context of Austro-Hungarian literature.

• IntroductionEmpiricist Empires: Hofmannsthal's Domestic OrientalismEmpirical Mysticism and Imperial Mystique: Orientalism inMusil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings TörlessThe Sovereign Subject under Siege: Ethnology andEthnocentrism in Kafka's "Description of a Struggle,"Jackals und Arabs," and "In the Penal Colony"The Contingent Continent: Kafka's China in "Beim Bauder chinesischen Mauer" and "Ein altes Blatt"ConclusionWorks Cited

With his book Robert Lemon delivers a valuable contribution to the topic of orientalism in German-language literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lemon's work fills a gap in current scholarship, which for the most part has been lacking any focused treatment of orientalism in the context of Austro-Hungarian literature.