The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle CultureThe Viennese caf was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin de sicle Vienna. Just as the caf served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations

This edition of William Le Queux’s The Tickencote Treasure is a classic work of adventure fiction reimagined for modern readers

oriented around an ideal of compassionately loving one's fellow as oneself and an acknowledgment of the difficulties of moral change

charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries

Spanning settings from the Pace's lonely cottage in the Forest of Dean to the House of Commons and using sources ranging from meticulous detective reports to heartfelt admirers’ letters

including the interview

and addresses commonly and less commonly seen liver disease diagnoses

older adult sexuality and theunique sexual problems confronting LGBT individuals

Using declassified documents from Israeli archives

and consider them in relation to interpretive strategies that include feminism

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noting its development

and discourse analysis