Comical Modernity
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1857-1890
19th C
19th Century
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Austrian Studies
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humour
modernity
popular culture
Popular Publications
urban history
Vienna
Viennese Modernist Culture
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- ISBN 9781836953821
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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”.
