Peter Gay
Peter Gay
Awards
Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 1994
Shortlisted — National Book Award, 1988
Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 1989
Books by Peter Gay
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy
Hardback, 2007
A celebration of subversives: the first one-volume history of the greatest cultural movement since the Enlightenment.
The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment
Paperback, 2008
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
Paperback, 2002
A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.
Style in History
Paperback, 1989
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
Paperback, 1994
With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture.
The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism
1, Paperback, 1995
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world.
The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
2, Paperback, 1996
The second volume of Peter Gay's in-depth study of the dawn of the modern world—the Age of Reason.
The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Paperback, 1996
In The Naked Heart, Peter Gay explores the bourgeoisie's turn inward.
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Paperback, 1998
A 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 Tender Passion: The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud
Paperback, 1999
The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.