Schnitzler's century: the making of middle-class culture, 1815 - 1914

Schnitzler's century reassesses nineteenth-century history and traces the dramatic rise of the middle class. We have always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the nineteenth century. Yet Peter Gay asserts in this work that it is the sexually emboldened Viennese playwrigh...

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1. Verfasser: Gay, Peter 1923-2015 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Norton 2002
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Zusammenfassung:Schnitzler's century reassesses nineteenth-century history and traces the dramatic rise of the middle class. We have always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the nineteenth century. Yet Peter Gay asserts in this work that it is the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright, Arthur Schnitzler, who provides a better symbol for the age. Challenging many sacrosanct notions about middle-class prudery and hypocrisy, he shows that in important ways, the Victorians were not Victorians. 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, and eros and anxiety. Schnitzler's century, complete with 13 illustrations, tells us how we came to be the way we are.
Beschreibung:XXIX, 334 S. Ill.
ISBN:0393048934
0393323633

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