Comical Modernity : Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna (Austrian and Habsburg Studies)

Hakkarainen, Heidi

Berghahn Books（2026/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781836953821
• DDC分類 808.882

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Power and Space

Chapter 2. Tensions with City Authorities

Chapter 3. City out of Control

Chapter 4. Knowing the City

Chapter 5. Urban Types and Characters

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index