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

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

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Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies, Book 23

Austrian & Hungarian HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1836953828
ISBN13: 9781836953821
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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