The Bourgeois Experience: Pleasure wars
Author: Peter Gay
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393045703
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Author: Peter Gay
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Published: 1984
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ISBN-13: 9780393045703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA series of books on the Victorian bourgeoise.
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998-01-17
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0393243532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780195037289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of middle-class culture from the 1820s to World War I
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780393319033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation of the Senses, the first book of Peter Gay's projected multi-volume study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I, re-examines the sexual behavior and attitudes of Victorians
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780393033984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGay'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.
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780393319040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation of the Senses is the first volume in Peter Gay's panoramic study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I. Drawing on psychoanalytic insights and a rich array of primary sources, Gay reexamines the sexual behavior and attitudes of the Victorians, overturning a myriad of stereotypes, especially about women. Book jacket.
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002-11-17
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0393347826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright, as his master of ceremonies, Gay offers a brilliant reexamination of the hundred-year period that began with the defeat of Napoleon and concluded with the conflagration of 1914. This is a defining work by one of America's greatest historians.
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-01-17
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0393318273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Marshall Berman
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780860917854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: Yale.ORIM
Published: 1998-10-07
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0300133146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Not only a memoir, it’s also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany” (Publishers Weekly). In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—“the story,” says Peter Gay, “of a poisoning and how I dealt with it.” With his customary eloquence and analytic acumen, Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings—then and now—toward Germany its people. Gay relates that the early years of the Nazi regime were relatively benign for his family, yet even before the events of 1938–39, culminating in Kristallnacht, they were convinced they must leave the country. Gay describes the bravery and ingenuity of his father in working out this difficult emigration process, the courage of the non-Jewish friends who helped his family during their last bitter months in Germany, and the family’s mounting panic as they witnessed the indifference of other countries to their plight and that of others like themselves. Gay’s account—marked by candor, modesty, and insight—adds an important and curiously neglected perspective to the history of German Jewry. “Not a single paragraph is superfluous. His inquiry rivets without let up, powered by its unremitting candor.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “[An] eloquent memoir.” —The Wall Street Journal “A moving testament to the agony the author experienced.” —Chicago Tribune “[A] valuable chronicle of what life was like for those who lived through persecution and faced execution.” —Choice