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.
Table of Content
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
About the author
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”.
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