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Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914
Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914
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An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth 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.