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

ISBN: 0393323633

Author: Gay, Peter

Condition: New

"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. 12 b/w illustrations.