The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
ISBN-10
0857457659
ISBN-13
9780857457653
Category
History
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2013-01-30
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Simon Shaw-Miller, Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg

Description

The Viennese café 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-siècle Vienna. Just as the café 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.

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