Bibliograph

Comical modernity, popular humour and the transformation of urban space in late nineteenth-century Vienna, Heidi Hakkarainen

Type

Label

Comical modernity, popular humour and the transformation of urban space in late nineteenth-century Vienna, Heidi Hakkarainen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-269) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Comical modernity

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1079400054

Responsibility statement

Heidi Hakkarainen

Series statement

Austrian and Habsburg studies, volume 23

Sub title

popular humour and the transformation of urban space in late nineteenth-century Vienna

Summary

"Though long associated with a small group of coffeehouse elites around the turn of the twentieth century, Viennese 'modernist' culture had roots that reached much further back and beyond the rarefied sphere of high culture. In Comical Modernity, Heidi Hakkarainen looks at Vienna in the second half of the nineteenth century, a period of dramatic urban renewal during which the city's rapidly changing face was a mainstay of humorous magazines, books, and other publications aimed at middle-class audiences. As she shows, humor provided a widely accessible means of negotiating an era of radical change"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Power and space : censorship, satire and the public sphere -- Tensions with city authorities : resisting order -- City out of control : laughing at chaos -- Knowing the city : (mis)reading the city and the deception of sight -- Urban types and characters : new clothes of Vindobona -- modernity and gender

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