Susan Ingram is Associate Professor at York University, where she is affiliated with the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and the Research Group on Translation and Transcultural Contact. Before moving to York, she was a Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, and she has also taught in Germany and Poland. Publications such as Zarathustra’s Sisters: Women’s Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History and a series of co-edited volumes on the mutually constitutive crosscultural constructions of Central Europe and North America reflect her interest in the institutions of European cultural modernity.

• Introduction: Vienna’s Culture of Appearance Part I: Chic Formations: The Cinematically Historical Underpinnings of Vienna’s Urban Imaginary Chapter 1: Baroque Chic: Fashioning Courtly Spaces Chapter 2: Ringstrasse Chic: Vienna Moderns Chapter 3: Prolo Chic Chapter 4: Ausländer Chic Part II: Staging Fashion in Vienna Chapter 5: Museum Chic Chapter 6: Designer Chic Conclusion: Vienna Now, Not Never

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