Introduction: Trieste and the European Project-Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
Modernism and the Idea of Europe
Habsburg Trieste, urbs europeissima
Nonnational Affiliations in the Habsburg Empire
Behind the Nation: Trieste and an Austrian Mediterranean Sea
A Multilingual Habsburg Canon
1 The Adriatic Sea as a Phoenician Mediterranean, 1870-1925
The Phoenicians in Greek and Roman Sources
The Phoenicians between Orientalism and Classicism
Phoenicianism in Trieste
"Here I Am in Tergeste": The Fantasies of a Phoenician Freud
A Semitic Hellenism: Theodor Däubler and the Poetics of Bilingualism

A View of the Mediterranean Karst: Srečko Kosovel and the Ethics of Mediation
2 A Mediterranean Monarchy: Robert Musil and the Politics of Nonnational Loyalty, 1913-1943
Vienna-Trieste, Summer 1913: Die Adria-Ausstellung and the Hohenlohe Decrees
Musil's War Journalism 1916-1918: Italian Irredentism in the Soldaten-Zeitung
Europe in Musil's Essays, 1912-1923
Ulrich, the Man without Patriotic Qualities
Trieste in Kakanien 1913: Leo Fischel and Count Leinsdorf
Paul Arnheim, Ancient Phoenician and Modern European
3 Trojan Trieste: Italo Svevo and the Aesthetics of Austro-Italian Liminality, 1890-1923

Svevo's Politics of Literary Style
The New Europe in Svevo's Pacifist Essay, 1918-1922
One Last Austrian Cigarette: Zeno, the Habsburg Phoenician, 1923
Literature and the Language of Lies
4 Habsburg Hybrid: James Joyce and the Ethnolinguistics of Hiberno-Punic Mythography, 1904-1939
What Is in a Name? Italo Svevo and Giacomo Joyce
Joyce and the "United States of Europe of the Future"
The Metamorphosis of Irish History
Joyce's Mediterranean Classicism
Europe Minor
The Phoenician Wakes
Conclusion: The Danube Flows into the Mediterranean
Bibliography
Index.