Format:
XXIX, 334 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
0393048934
,
0393323633
Content:
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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
German Studies
Keywords:
Europa
;
Mittelstand
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1815-1914
;
Schnitzler, Arthur 1862-1931
;
Schnitzler, Arthur 1862-1931
;
Europa
;
Bürgertum
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1815-1914
;
Biografie
Author information:
Gay, Peter 1923-2015
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