Vienna 1900: Art, life and culture
Vienna, Vienne, art, urbanité, culture urbaine, histoire urbaine, fin de siècle, 1900, Brandstatter Christian
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna was one of the most exciting cities on earth - the central gathering spot of the European avant-garde in art, architecture, literature, music, journalism, philosophy, psychiatry, and theater. The dynamic cross-pollination among the revolutionary figures involved - Klimt, Kokoschka, the Wiener Werkstatte, Mahler, Freud, Wittgenstein, and many more - turned the Austrian capital into an extraordinary laboratory for new ideas and concepts. It is where modern was born.<br /> <br /> With more than 500 illustrations, Vienna 1900 is a unique, concise portrait of a vibrant world and its most important protagonists.</div> </div> <b>Christian Brandstatter </b>is an author, curator and publisher who lives in Vienna.</div> </div>
Christian Brandstatter
The Vendome Press
September 2011
400
Ouvrage
Petersburg fin de siècle
St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, fin de siècle, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, histoire urbaine, Steinberg Mark D.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described and interpreted the troubled years between the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.<br /> <br /> Mark Steinberg, distinguished historian of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examines the work of writers of all kinds, from anonymous journalists to well-known public intellectuals, from secular liberals to religious conservatives. Though diverse in their perspectives, these urban writers were remarkably consistent in the worries they expressed. They grappled with the impact of technological and material progress on the one hand, and with an ever-deepening anxiety and pessimism on the other. Steinberg reveals a new, darker perspective on the history of St. Petersburg on the eve of revolution and presents a fresh view of Russia's experience of modernity.<br /> <br /> <b>Mark Steinberg</b> is professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and editor of the journal Slavic Review.</div> </div>
Mark D. Steinberg
Yale University Press
September 2011
416
Ouvrage
Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990
histoire urbaine, fin de siècle, littérature, imaginaire, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, Gissing George, quartier défavorisé, London, Londres, East End, Dennis Richard
<div>This paper was part of the <a href="https://www.history.ac.uk/aac2009" target="_blank">Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009</a>, on the theme 'cities'.</div>
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<b>Conference description by the organisers :</b></div>
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The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and their role in cultural formation, the relations between cities, territories and larger political units, the ideologies and cosmologies of the city and what distinguishes the city or town from other forms of settlement or ways of life.</div>
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<b>Paper abstract from the organisers : </b></div>
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This paper will explore the emergence of 'East End' as a category of description and analysis in fiction and social scientific discourse.<br />
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Where, exactly (or even approximately!), was the 'East End' and what were its social, cultural and geographical attributes? The paper will pay particular attention to the writings of George Gissing, whose reputation as a novelist of slum life has often led to his being associated with the East End; to the relationship between Gissing and other 'East Enders', such as Arthur Morrison, Walter Besant and the Rev. Osborne Jay; and to the parallels and interactions between Gissing's fiction and Charles Booth's Labour and Life of the People and the associated 'Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889'. Of special interest is Gissing's early novel, The Unclassed. In its first edition as a three-volume novel (1884), the slums that play a prominent role in The Unclassed were situated in Westminster, but by 1895, in revising – mainly abridging – the novel into a single volume, Gissing relocated the slums to the East End, reflecting shifts in both popular perceptions of the East End and 'real' ongoing changes in the geography of poverty in London in the 1890s that are also revealed by the 1898–99 revised edition of Booth's poverty maps.</div>
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<b>Richard Dennis </b>is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UCL.<br />
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NB : This recording may be streamed via your web browser or opened in iTunes.</div>
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See also recordings of the other conference sessions:</div>
Ideas of the metropolis</a></div>
What is a city? The English experience</a></div>
Cities and peripheries</a></div>
Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s</a></div>
Multicultural London: Past, present and future. A history and policy discussion</a></div>
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Richard Dennis
2 July 2009
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/anglo-american-conference/id440518170