Comical Modernity

Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-273-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hakkarainen, Heidi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Humor
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Power and Space

Chapter 2. Tensions with City Authorities

Chapter 3. City out of Control

Chapter 4. Knowing the City

Chapter 5. Urban Types and Characters

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hakkarainen, Heidi
Heidi Hakkarainen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, Finland, where she also obtained her doctorate. She is currently contributing to a research project on “Viral Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe.”