Comical Modernity - Popular Humour Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth

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.

A propos de l'auteur

Heidi Hakkarainen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. She has recently contributed to a research project on “Viral Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe”.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Heidi Hakkarainen
• Edition: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.2026
• EAN: 9781836953821
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-382-1
• Pages: 288
• Thème: Austrian and Habsburg Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, European History, HISTORY / World, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Empires & historical states, General and world history, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc