Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Title | Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gay |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999-01-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393318272 |
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
Title | Pleasure Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Arts, European |
ISBN |
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud)
Title | Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud) PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gay |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 1999-01-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393318273 |
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
Title | Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gay |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 1998-01-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393243532 |
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
Title | The Bourgeois Experience: Pleasure wars PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Love |
ISBN | 9780393045703 |
A series of books on the Victorian bourgeoise.
Education of the Senses
Title | Education of the Senses PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gay |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 534 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780195037289 |
A study of middle-class culture from the 1820s to World War I
The Cultivation of Hatred
Title | The Cultivation of Hatred PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gay |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393033984 |
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.