The Victorians we meet in this volume range from the capitalists in the top tier of the bourgeoisie, eager to be recognized as gentlemen, to the clerks and craftsmen fearful of sinking into the proletariat. Peter Gay's aim throughout this sweeping work of cultural history is to widen our perception of Victorian bourgeois life, to replace monochromatic generalizations with revealing portraits of men and women in all the colorful complexity of their lives.

Pleasure Wars - The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria To Freud, Volume V

History

Peter Gay

Europe

W.W.Norton&Company

Style in history (McGraw-Hill paperbacks) [paperback] Peter Gay [Jan 01, 1976]

Style in history (McGraw-Hill paperbacks)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

McGraw=Hill

Style In History

JONATHAN CAPE.

Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom v. 2

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Published in 1860, Burckhardt’s great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. With unsurpassed erudition, Burckhardt illuminates a world of artistic and cultural ferment, innovation, and discovery; of revived humanism; of fierce tensions between church and empire; and of the birth of both the modern state and the modern individual. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy remains the single most important and influential account of this crucial moment in the history of the West.

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library Classics)

Arts & Photography

Hajo Holborn

Jacob, Burckhardt

History & Criticism

Modern Library

In the manner of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Freud argued that religion and science were mortal enemies. Early in the century, he began to think about religion psychoanalytically and to discuss it in his writings. The Future of an Illusion (1927), Freud's best known and most emphatic psychoanalytic exploration of religion, is the culmination of a lifelong pattern of thinking.

The Future of An Illusion

1977. W.W. Norton. First Edition. Number line 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. No reading lines on spine. Book looks almost like new. Minimal wear to edges. front cover turns up slightly. Very clean and bright and tight. This is a used book.

An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism

W.W.Norton

The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment's critical method and its humane and libertarian vision.

The Enlightenment, An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom

A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions. Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust, Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. Using Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann as his examples, Gay explores their world, their craftsmanship, and their minds. In the process, he discovers that all three share one overriding quality: a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself. Using their stylish writing as a form of revenge, they deal out savage reprisals, which have become part of our Western literary canon. Based on the W. W. Norton/New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Lectures. 4 b/w illustrations.

Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

Literature & Fiction

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight.

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Pleasure Wars - The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria To Freud, Volume V

Style in history (McGraw-Hill paperbacks)

Style In History

Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom v. 2

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library Classics)

The Future of An Illusion

An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism

The Enlightenment, An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom

Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

Style In History