Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393318272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393318272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393318272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.
Pleasure Wars
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts, European
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts, European
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud)
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393318273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The concluding volume in Peter Gay's magisterial study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I. Photos.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393318273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The concluding volume in Peter Gay's magisterial study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I. Photos.
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
A master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
A master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.
The Bourgeois Experience: Pleasure wars
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780393045703
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A series of books on the Victorian bourgeoise.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780393045703
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A series of books on the Victorian bourgeoise.
The Bourgeois Experience
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780002557085
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
In Investigating The Inner Life Of The Whole Victorian Bourgeoisie, This Book Turns Also To The Letters And Confessional Diaries Of Both Obscure And Prominent Men And Women. A Work That Will Be Widely Read, Praised, Debated And Re-Read.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780002557085
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
In Investigating The Inner Life Of The Whole Victorian Bourgeoisie, This Book Turns Also To The Letters And Confessional Diaries Of Both Obscure And Prominent Men And Women. A Work That Will Be Widely Read, Praised, Debated And Re-Read.
The Cultivation of Hatred
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393033984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393033984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.
The Bourgeois experience
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195037289
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195037289
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.
The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393315158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In The Naked Heart, Peter Gay explores the bourgeoisie's turn inward. At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport." Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness through its varied cultural expressions (such as fiction, art, history, and autobiography), Gay turns also to the letters and confessional diaries of both obscure and prominent men and women. These revealing documents help to round out a sparkling portrait of an age.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393315158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In The Naked Heart, Peter Gay explores the bourgeoisie's turn inward. At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport." Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness through its varied cultural expressions (such as fiction, art, history, and autobiography), Gay turns also to the letters and confessional diaries of both obscure and prominent men and women. These revealing documents help to round out a sparkling portrait of an age.