Comical Modernity

Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna

AvHeidi Hakkarainen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Though long associated with a small group of coffeehouse elites around the turn of the twentieth century, Viennese "modernist" culture had roots that extended much earlier, 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. Hakkarainen shows how humor provided a widely accessible means of negotiating an era of radical change, allowing a broader understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Vienna.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:571 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789202731

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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."

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"Through her penetrating and compelling analysis of humor in connection with the physical expansion of Vienna as a city and the shifting identity models based on gender, class, religion and ethnicity, Heidi Hakkarainen identifies a blend of elements that produced a specifically Viennese humor." Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago"This impressive and illuminating book represents thoughtful engagement in a wide range of discourses about what it means to be modern, but also opens up questions about what is particularly "Viennese." It helps us learn about the city through senses that are often ignored - smells, tastes, slights and frustrations, but also moments of levity." Britta McEwen, Creighton University

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Power and SpaceChapter 2. Tensions with City AuthoritiesChapter 3. City out of ControlChapter 4. Knowing the CityChapter 5. Urban Types and CharactersConclusionsBibliographyIndex