Comical Modernity
Subtitle: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781789202731
Subjects: Literature
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"--