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

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.

Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/01/2002
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780393323634

About the Author
Gay, Peter: - Peter Gay (1923--2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.