Main entry:

Steiner, Henriette, 1980-

Title & Author:

The emergence of a modern city : golden age Copenhagen 1800-1850 / by Henriette Steiner.

Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014.

Description:

viii, 181 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Situating Golden Age Copenhagen -- Arrival in the City -- The Case of Golden Age Copenhagen -- Urban Institutions in the New City: Re-configuration as Re-orientation -- 2.Narratives of Urban Life -- Seduced by the City, or the Diary of an Attendant in Copenhagen -- A Room But No View: Staging the Bourgeois Home -- In and Against the Institutions: Love and Pleasure in Golden Age Copenhagen -- 3.Kierkegaard's Copenhagen and Philosophies of the Modern City -- In the Crowd and in the Garden: The City in the Mirror -- The One and the Many, or the Life of the City -- Spaces of Transition in Copenhagen: Kierkegaard, Voegelin, and the Modern Urban Situation.

Summary:

During Denmark's 'Golden Age' (c. 1800 to 1850), Copenhagen came into being as a modern city on the urban-cultural level. This book examines this period in the city's history, just before the establishment of some of the main features of the modernisation of cities associated with industrialisation, such as street lighting, sewer systems, and working class quarters. Having briefly set out the historical and topographical context, it assess the work of the most prominent architect of the period, C.F. Hansen in transforming the city physically, before moving on to consider writings by three citizens of Copenhagen, the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, the novelist Thomasine Gyllembourg and the criminal Ole Kollerod, all of whom write about the city's institutional structure and urban. In doing so, the book not only gives the full picture of these people's lives, but focuses on the way they see themselves as part of the city and on the ambiguities in the way they picture this relationship. It is significant that they reflect on urban life at a time when the city in European thinking began to take on characteristics of ambiguous belonging and alienation while still holding on to some pre-modern motifs of a symbolic order. By including three very different citizens, the book evokes an example of a stratified civic order whose inherent contrariness in fact highlights significant features of the emergent order of the modern city. It investigates how urban life in Golden Age Copenhagen is experienced and structured socially, institutionally, and architecturally, using a broad historical source material spanning urban anecdotes, biography, philosophy, literature, and visual culture. In doing so, it offers insights into the processes of cultural re-orientation involved in the transition from traditional Baroque culture to what might be termed Romantic culture in this short period and the effects it has had on the development of the modern order of this city.

ISBN:

9781472413253 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1472413253 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781472413260
9781472413277 (ePub ebook)

Subject:

Hansen, Christian Frederik, 1756-1845 Criticism and interpretation.
Hansen, Christian Frederik, 1756-1845.
Literature.
Social conditions
Stadsliv historia.
Städer historia.
Kulturhistoria.
Arkitektur historia.
Copenhagen (Denmark) Social conditions 19th century.
Copenhagen (Denmark) In literature.
Denmark Copenhagen.
Danmark Köpenhamn.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288662
Call No.: BIB 230504
Status: Available