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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steiner, Henriette, 1980-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hansen, Christian Frederik, 1756-1845--Criticism and interpretation.

Hansen, Christian Frederik.

Copenhagen (Denmark)--Social conditions--19th century.

Copenhagen (Denmark).

Copenhagen (Denmark)--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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. 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 Søren Kierkegaard, the noveli

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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 CitySpaces of Transition in Copenhagen: Kierkegaard, Voegelin, and the Modern Urban Situation; Epilogue: On the City as World; List of References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-61598-3

1-317-03439-2

1-317-03438-4

1-4724-1326-1

9781315615981

OCLC:

871781483