The Viennese Cafe and Fin-de-Siecle Culture

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Synopsis
The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Just as the cafe served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Copyright:
2015

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780857457653
Related ISBNs:
9780857457646
Publisher:
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Simon Shaw-Miller, Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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