title: Constructing a Periphery
abstract: Based on the analysis of articles published in theater periodicals in the Holy Roman Empire, thisstudy explores the enlightened cultural and symbolic geographies as reflected in the late eighteenth-centuryGerman theatrical press. Larry Wolff has shown that western travelers tend to locate the borders of civilizedEurope in Habsburg lands situated east of Vienna, namely in Galicia and Hungary. If theatrical periodicalsand travel memoirs by western travelers share a common interest in the frontiers
journal: Historical Studies on Central Europe