Comical Modernity
Download or Read eBook Comical Modernity PDF written by Heidi Hakkarainen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Heidi Hakkarainen |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781789202748 |
ISBN-13 | : 1789202744 |
Rating | : 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Comical Modernity by : Heidi Hakkarainen
Book excerpt: 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.