ISBN:
9781789202731
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 279 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
Austrian and Habsburg studies 23
Series Statement:
Austrian and Habsburg studies
Parallel Title:
Online version Hakkarainen, Heidi, author Comical modernity
Keywords:
Geschichte 1857-1890
;
Geschichte 1850-1900
;
Satirische Zeitschrift
;
Humor
;
Wien
;
Modernisierung
;
Moderne
;
Humoristische Literatur
;
Urbanität
;
Wien
;
Vienna (Austria) / Humor
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Austrian wit and humor / Social aspects / Austria / Vienna
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Austrian wit and humor / History and criticism
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Vienna (Austria) / In literature
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Urbanization in literature
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Urbanization / Austria / Vienna / History / 19th century
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Vienna (Austria) / Social life and customs / 19th century
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Vienna (Austria) / Civilization / 19th century
;
Austrian wit and humor
;
Civilization
;
Literature
;
Manners and customs
;
Urbanization
;
Urbanization in literature
;
Wit and humor
;
Austria / Vienna
;
1800-1899
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
History
;
Satirische Zeitschrift
;
Humor
;
Wien
;
Moderne
;
Urbanität
;
Geschichte 1857-1890
;
Wien
;
Humoristische Literatur
;
Modernisierung
;
Geschichte 1850-1900
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / 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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