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Charlotte Ashby (Ed.) - The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture - 9780857457646 - V9780857457646
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The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

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Description for The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture Hardback. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffee house in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Just as the cafeserved as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna 1900. Editor(s): Ashby, Charlotte; Gronberg, Tag; Shaw-Miller, Simon. Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456. Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies. 256 pages, 41 ills. Editor(s): Ashby, Charlotte; Gronberg, Tag; Shaw-Miller, Simon. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffee house in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Just as the cafeserved as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna 1900. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 17. Weight: 456.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Condition
New
Weight
455g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857457646
SKU
V9780857457646
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About Charlotte Ashby (Ed.)
Charlotte Ashby is a Lecturer in Art and Design History at Birkbeck, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Viennese Café Project at the Royal College of Art. In 2008 she curated the exhibition “Vienna Café 1900” at the Royal College of Art and co-convened the conference “The Viennese Café as an ... Read more

Reviews for The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
“Like a well-made Mélange, this volume is rich and satisfying.” · Slavonic and East European Review “Eleven highly stimulating articles, including several dazzling ones....one of the most constructive... treatments that the subject has ever received.” · Contemporary Austrian Studies “This volume forms a convincing starting point, in which the Viennese café is revealed as ... Read more

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