The Garden and the Workshop
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-60679-8 (ISBN)
He explores the mentality of common soldiers and their families--mostly of peasant origin--during World War I, detecting in letters to and from the front a shift toward a revolutionary mood among Hungarians in particular. He presents snapshots of such subjects as the mentality of the nobility, operettas and musical life, and attitudes toward Germans and Jews, and also reveals the striking relationship between social marginality and cultural creativity. 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. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Peter Hanak was, until his death in 1997, Professor of History at the Central European University in Budapest.
List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductory Reflections on Cultural HistoryCh. 1Urbanization and Civilization: Vienna and Budapest in the Nineteenth Century3Ch. 2The Image of the Germans and the Jews in the Hungarian Mirror of the Nineteenth Century44Ch. 3The Garden and the Workshop: Reflections on Fin-de-Siecle Culture in Vienna and Budapest63Ch. 4The Alienation of Death in Budapest and Vienna at the Turn of the Century98Ch. 5The Start of Endre Ady's Literary Career (1903-1905)110Ch. 6The Cultural Role of the Vienna-Budapest Operetta135Ch. 7Social Marginality and Cultural Creativity in Vienna and Budapest (1890-1914)147Ch. 8Vox Populi: Intercepted Letters in the First World War179Notes213Index241
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.7.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | Princeton Legacy Library |
Zusatzinfo | 24 halftones |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-60679-X / 069160679X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-60679-8 / 9780691606798 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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