![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War. In uncovering the roots of modernism, a master historian shows us a hidden 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. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered-only too often invented-a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it.Īggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. My collective title, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, states with fair accuracy the intentions I gradually clarified. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. 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 Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud E-Kitap Açıklaması ![]()
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