Urban Culture and the Modern City

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries. When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as Freud, Ferenczi, Kafka, and Joyce lived and worked, are rarely studied in a translocal framework, as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth analyses of the intriguing link between literature, the arts, and material culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The case studies situate Hungarian urban culture within the global flow of ideas as they explore the period of modernism, the mid-century, and the post-1989 era in a context that moves well beyond the borders of the country. Contributors: rpd Bak (University of Leeds), va Federmayer (Etvs Lornd University), Magdolna Gucsa (Etvs Lornd University / HESS), gnes Gyrke (Kroli Gspr University), Ferenc Hrcher (Etvs Jzsef Research Centre), Tams Juhsz (Kroli Gspr University), Gyrgy Kalmr (University of Debrecen), Lszl Munten (Radboud University), gnes Klra Papp (Kroli Gspr University), Mrta Pellrdi (Pzmny Pter Catholic University), Eszter Ureczky (University of Debrecen). This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/