Schnitzler's Century

The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

By: Peter Gay

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Paperback | 1 November 2002

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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.

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"Through Gay's eyes we can get a warmer, more vivid and more accurate sense of the 'bourgeois experience' than has ever been available before." Sunday Telegraph "Schnitzler's Century is really a love story. [Gay's] latest book allows him to show off in a field he has made his own. [He] takes his chance elegantly and always interestingly." Andrew Lycett, Literary Review "Gay's own psychoanalytical approach is shown to brilliant and convincing effect... Schnitzler's Century [is] told with wisdom, wit and sensitivity." Financial Times

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List of Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xix
Overture	p. xxvii
Fundamentals
Bourgeoisie(s)	p. 3
Home, Bittersweet Home	p. 35
Drives and Defenses
Eros: Rapture and Symptom	p. 63
Alibis for Aggression	p. 97
Grounds for Anxiety	p. 129
The Victorian Mind
Obituaries and Revivals	p. 157
The Problematic Gospel of Work	p. 191
Matters of Taste	p. 221
A Room of One's Own	p. 253
Coda	p. 281
Notes	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 315
Acknowledgments	p. 317
Index	p. 321
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The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

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