Schnitzler’s Century (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Gay
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1815-1914
- Setting: Western Europe, the United States, and Russia
- Principal Characters: Arthur Schnitzler
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Middle classes, Austria or Austrians, Russia or Russian people, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: Europe, United States, Russia
Over the past fifteen years, Peter Gay has published a magisterial five-volume study of the Victorian world which he has called The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (1984-1998). Intending to correct misperceptions about nineteenth century middle-class life, he has been at some pains to provide evidence that our ancestors were not as prudish, materialistic, or conventional as had formerly been thought. His task has been monumental, and in pursuing this collective historical enterprise, he has unearthed a library of original source material only scantily examined before. As...
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