Full name: Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914

Author: Peter Gay Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393323634 0393323633

We have Always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the nineteenth century. Yet Peter Gay asserts 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 such intellectual luminaries as 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 Mirror has a century been brought alive as dramatically. Schnitzler's Century is nothing less than a tour de force, a work that tells us with remarkable lucidity how we came to be the way we are. Similar books: Education of the Senses by Peter Gay A Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson Weimar Culture by Peter Gay Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Catastrophe by David Keys Civilization by Roger Osborne The Making of Victorian Values by Ben Wilson 1848 by Mike Rapport The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans 1831 by Louis P. Masur The Transformation of the World by Jurgen Osterhammel Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll