Sissi's world: the Empress Elisabeth in memory and myth - vol. 22.

'Sissi's World' offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

It investigates the myths, legends and representations across literature, art, film and other media of one of the most popular, revered and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. 'Sissi's World' explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist.