Salmi 19th Century Europe

A Cultural History
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-5859-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise andfresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution inFrance and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes ofthe period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenthcentury to the pessimistic views of fin de siècle. It is alucid, fluent presentation that appeals to both students of historyand culture and the general audience interested in Europeancultural history.
The book attempts to see the culture of the nineteenth centuryin broad terms, integrating everyday ways of life into the story asmental, material and social practices. It also highlights ways ofthinking, mentalities and emotions in order to construct a pictureof this period of another kind, that goes beyond a story of"isms" or intellectual and artistic movements.
Although the nineteenth century has often been described as acentury of rising factory pipes and grey industrial cities, as acradle of modern culture, the era has many faces. This book paysspecial attention to the experiences of contemporaries, from thefear for steaming engines to the longing for the pre-industrialpast, from the idle calmness of bourgeois life to the awakeningconsumerism of the department stores, from curious exoticism toincreasing xenophobia, from optimistic visions of future to theexpectations of an approaching end. The century that is only a fewgenerations away from us is strange and familiar at the same time- a bygone world that has in many ways influenced our presentday world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salmi, Hannu

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1
1 Industrialization: Economy and Culture 12
2 The Faustian Man: A Society in Motion 29
3 From the Cult of Genius to Worship of Art 43
4 On the Cultural History of Nationalism 58
5 A Century of Family and Home: Daily Routines and CountryExcursions 72
6 Baudelaire in the Department Store: Urban Living andConsumption 88
7 The Breakthrough of Mechanical Reproduction 99
8 Colonial Culture and European Identity 112
9 Fin de Siècle: The End of a Century 124
10 Conclusion: 'Things to Come' 140
Notes 148
Bibliography 165
Index 184

Über Autor(innen)

Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku.