Pleasure Wars

The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud

21 December 1998

Peter Gay (Author)

Description

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 Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.

Paperback

9780393318272

155 x 234 mm • 356 pages

£29.00

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