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Comical Modernity : Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna / Heidi Hakkarainen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 23Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789202731
  • 9781789202748
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.88/2 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6222.A8
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Power and Space -- 2. Tensions with City Authorities -- 3. City out of Control -- 4. Knowing the City -- 5. Urban Types and Characters -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781789202748

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Power and Space -- 2. Tensions with City Authorities -- 3. City out of Control -- 4. Knowing the City -- 5. Urban Types and Characters -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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