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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hakkarainen, Heidi,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

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.

Table of 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