Schnitzler's Century by Peter Gay
Au audacious work, "Schnitzler's Century" reassesses 19th-century history and traces the dramatic rise of the middle class. We have always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the 19th century. Yet Peter Gay suggests in this provocative, seminal work that it is the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler, who provides a better symbol for the age. Challenging many of the sacrosanct theories of Darwin and Freud, Gay chronicles the rise of modernity in countries as diverse as Germany and Italy, England and the United States, and in doing so presents a century filled with science and superstition, revolutionaries and reactionaries, eros and anxiety - in short, an age of contradiction rendered remarkably clear by one of our most eloquent historians. Not since Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Narrative" has a century been brought alive as dramatically. "Schnitzler's Century" is a "tour de force", a work that tells us with remarkable lucidity how we came to be the way we are.
Peter Gay is one of America's most distinguished historians and now head of the newly-founded Centre for Writers at New York Public Library. Besides THE BOURGEOIS CENTURY, he is the author of THE ENLIGHTENMENT, WEIMAR CULTURE and the now standard biography of FREUD.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713994483 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713994487 |
| Title | Schnitzler's Century |
| Author | Peter Gay |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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