Peter Gay's inquiry into the ideas and sensibilities which dominated nineteenth-century culture is one of the great achievements in modern historical writing. This is the fifth volume. Peter Gay's The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud has revolutionized our thinking about the nineteenth century as a whole and particularly about its dynamo - the middle classes. Gay's achievement is to summarize the interior life, the mentality of the nineteenth century. In uncovering the roots of modernism, he shows ...
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Peter Gay's inquiry into the ideas and sensibilities which dominated nineteenth-century culture is one of the great achievements in modern historical writing. This is the fifth volume. Peter Gay's The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud has revolutionized our thinking about the nineteenth century as a whole and particularly about its dynamo - the middle classes. Gay's achievement is to summarize the interior life, the mentality of the nineteenth century. In uncovering the roots of modernism, he shows us a hidden side of the Victorian era. The Victorians we meet in this volume are not the stodgy, complacent characters of drawing room comedy. They are instead a varied crowd, from the capitalists in the top tier of the bourgeoisie eager to be recognized as gentlemen or, better yet, dubbed as nobility, to those at the bottom of the pile, the clerks and craftsmen mortally afraid of sinking into the mass of the proletariat. What they share is an anxiety, driven by their concern to advance up the social pyramid or at least to maintain the status they have achieved. Some of the individuals in this richly peopled narrative turn on their own class, none more bitterly than Gustave Flaubert; others celebrate their success, whether in Manchester or Munich, by sponsoring symphony orchestras or establishing museums; still others become cultural hunters and gatherers, turning their newly acquired fortunes to the private accumulation of art, ranging from the "safe" works of the old masters to the daring innovations of the Impressionists. The stage is thus set for the explosion of modernism accompanied by an inevitable reaction against the subversive avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers as varied as Cezanne, Picasso, Stravinsky, Shaw, Ibsen, and Zola. No one reading this concluding volume of Peter Gay's magnificent reevaluation of the nineteenth century will ever again use the term Victorian as a synonym for dull.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Volume 5. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x10; Minor shelf wear to binding. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Ex-library book with typical stamps, marks and stickers. Interior pages clean and unmarked, like new. Minor wear to dust jacket edges. Firm binding. Black marker lines drawn on top and side edges. 324 pages... Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 324 p. Contains: Illustrations. Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Brown cloth with gold-color lettering on front cover and spine, 324 pp., illus., unclipped illustrated jacket in Brodart sleeve. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise light wear, no owner names or gift notes, clean text, tight binding, jacket with 1 cm top edge tear on front panel.
