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  1. Comical modernity
    popular humour and the transformation of urban space in late nineteenth-century Vienna
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Berghahn, New York ; Oxford

    "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,... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781789202731
    Series: Austrian and Habsburg studies ; 23
    Subjects: Satirische Zeitschrift; Humor; Wien <Motiv>; Modernisierung; Moderne <Motiv>; Humoristische Literatur; Urbanität <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Vienna (Austria) / Humor; Austrian wit and humor / Social aspects / Austria / Vienna; Austrian wit and humor / History and criticism; Vienna (Austria) / In literature; Urbanization in literature; Urbanization / Austria / Vienna / History / 19th century; Vienna (Austria) / Social life and customs / 19th century; 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
    Scope: viii, 279 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    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

  2. Comical modernity
    popular humour and the transformation of urban space in late nineteenth-century Vienna
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Berghahn, New York ; Oxford

    "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,... more

    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    TU Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    "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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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781789202731
    Series: Austrian and Habsburg studies ; 23
    Subjects: Satirische Zeitschrift; Humor; Wien <Motiv>; Modernisierung; Moderne <Motiv>; Humoristische Literatur; Urbanität <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Vienna (Austria) / Humor; Austrian wit and humor / Social aspects / Austria / Vienna; Austrian wit and humor / History and criticism; Vienna (Austria) / In literature; Urbanization in literature; Urbanization / Austria / Vienna / History / 19th century; Vienna (Austria) / Social life and customs / 19th century; 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
    Scope: viii, 279 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    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