The Gay Apocalypse: Art, Life, and Desire in Vienna's Golden Age

A remarkable social and cultural history of Vienna at the turn of the last century, revealing how the capital was a thriving metropolis of extraordinary creativity in both the arts and sciences.

Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was one of Europe’s great cultural melting pots. The city was the heart of an empire, its coffeehouses filled with the patter of Czech and Hungarian, as well as the lilting Viennese dialect, and home to a great outpouring of cultural brillia...