Comical Modernity

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Comical Modernity is written by Heidi Hakkarainen and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1789202744 (ISBN 10) and 9781789202748 (ISBN 13).

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.