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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review “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 a key site of fin-de-siècle modernity and of several modern urban identities. One cannot but hope for a sequel — that is, an even more extensive volume but one that is just as carefully prepared with beautiful illustrations and very extensive footnotes.” · Austrian Studies
All in all, this work contains fascinating essays that indeed flesh out some of the intricate issues of literary life that lie behind a simple cup of coffee. The café was a place of refuge for many artists and writers; in addition, it acted as an active, lively, and, at times, boisterous place for political and social debate… For any course on fin-de-siècle Central Europe, this book will provide a necessary springboard into how and why intellectuals were so heavily invested in the modern times of the new century.” · Journal of Austrian Studies
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Charlotte Ashby
Chapter 1. The Cafés of Vienna: Space and Sociability
Charlotte Ashby
Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Café Griensteidl and the Café Central
Gilbert Carr
Chapter 3.The Jew Belongs in the Coffeehouse’: Jews, Central Europe and Modernity
Steven Beller
Chapter 4. Coffeehouse Orientalism
Tag Gronberg
Chapter 5. Between ‘The House of Study’ and the Kaffeehaus: The Central European Café as a Site for Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism
Shachar Pinsker
Chapter 6. Michalik’s café in Kraków: Café and Caricature as Media of Modernity
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
Chapter 7. The Coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Similarities and Differences with the Viennese Coffeehouse
Ines Sabotic
Chapter 8. Adolf Loos’s Kärntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction
Mary Costello
Chapter 9. Graphic and Interior Design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900: Experience and Identity
Jeremy Aynsley
Chapter 10. The Cliché of the Viennese Café as an Extended Living-room: Formal Parallels and Differences
Richard Kurdiovsky
Chapter 11. Coffeehouses and Tea Parties: Conversational Spaces as a Stimulus to Creativity in Sigmund Freud’s Vienna and Virginia Woolf’s London
Edward Timms
Bibliography
Index
