The garden and the workshop : essays on the cultural history of Vienna and Budapest / Péter Hanák.

Main entry:

Hanák, Péter.

Title & Author:

The garden and the workshop : essays on the cultural history of Vienna and Budapest / Péter Hanák.

Publication:

Description:

xxiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-240) and index.
Urbanization and civilization : Vienna and Budapest in the nineteenth century -- The image of the Germans and the Jews in the Hungarian mirror of the nineteenth century -- The garden and the workshop : reflections on fin-de-siècle culture in Vienna and Budapest -- The alienation of death in Budapest and Vienna at the turn of the century -- The start of Endre Ady's literary career (1903-1905) -- The cultural role of the Vienna-Budapest operetta -- Social marginality and cultural creativity in Vienna and Budapest (1890-1914) -- Vox populi : intercepted letters in the First World War.

Summary:

In comparing the two cities, Hanak notes that Vienna, famed for its spacious parks and gardens, was often characterized as a "garden" of esoteric culture. Budapest, however, was a dense city surrounded by factories, whose cultural leaders referred to the offices and cafes where they met as "workshops." These differences were reflected, he argues, in the contrast between Vienna's aesthetic and individualistic culture and Budapest's more moralistic and socially engaged approach. Like Carl Schorske's famous Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Hanak's book paints a remarkable portrait of turn-of-the-century life in Central Europe. Its particular focus on mass culture and everyday life offers important new insights into cultural currents that shaped the course of the twentieth century.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0691015546 (alk. paper)
9780691015545 (alk. paper)
0691009651
9780691009650

Subject:

Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Vienna (Austria) Civilization.
Budapest (Hungary) Civilization.
Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life.
Budapest (Hungary) Intellectual life.
Austria Vienna.
Hungary Budapest.

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays.
Essais.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 197075
Call No.: ID DB851.H3; ID:98-B338
Status: Available

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