The Thinking Space : The Cafe as a Cultural Institution in Paris, Italy and Vienna (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction, W. Scott Haine; Part I Vienna; Chapter 1 The Vienna Coffee House: History and Cultural Significance, Herbert Lederer; Chapter 2 The End of a False Summer: Aspects of Viennese Literary Culture around 1900, Egon Schwarz; Chapter 3 Jewish Modernism and Viennese Cafes, 1900?1930, Shachar Pinsker; Part II Paris; Chapter 4 Bad Places: Sedition, Everyday Speech, and Performance in the Cafe of Enlightenment Paris, Tabetha Ewing; Chapter 5 From the Spectator to Goldoni: Coffee-house Culture and Wishful Thinking in the Eighteenth Century, Franco Fido; Chapter 6 A Cafe in the High Time of Haussmannization: Baudelaire’s Confrontation with the Eyes of the Poor, Edward J. Ahearn; Chapter 7 When Objective Chance Takes over Cafes, Gerard-Georges Lemaire; Chapter 8 At the Time of Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof) Cabaret, Leona Rittner; Chapter 9 Arguing About Jazz in the Parisian Cafe: Jazz, Race, and Literary Communities in 1920s Paris, Jeffrey H. Jackson; Chapter 10 Jean-Paul Sartre: Cafes, Ontology, Sociability, and Revolution in Occupied Paris, 1940?1944, W. Scott Haine; Part III Italy; Chapter 11 Art at I1 Caffe Florian, Florin Berindeanu; Chapter 12 Casanova’s Coffeehouse: Sociability, Social Class, and the Well-bred Reader in Histoire de ma vie, Ted Emery; Chapter 13 The Giubbe Rosse Cafe in Florence: A Literary and Political Alcove from Futurism to Anti-Fascist Resistance, Ernesto Livorni; Chapter 14 The Writer’s Provincial Muse: Piero Chiara in the Coffeehouse, Stefano Giannini; Part IV Reflections; Chapter 15 Three Scenes from Italian Cafes, Fannie Peczenik;