De eeuw van Schnitzler
een nieuwe geschiedenis van de negentiende eeuw
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We have Always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the nineteenth century. Yet Peter Gay asserts in this provocative, seminal work that it is the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright, Arthur Schnitzler, who provides a better symbol for the age. Challenging many of the sacrosanct theories of such intellectual luminaries as Darwin and Freud, Gay chronicles the rise of modernity in countries as diverse as Germany and Italy, England and the United States, and in doing so presents a century filled with science and superstition, revolutionaries and reactionaries, eros and anxiety -- in short, an age of contradiction rendered remarkably clear by one of our most eloquent historians. Not since Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror has a century been brought alive as dramatically. Schnitzler's Century is nothing less than a tour de force, a work that tells us with remarkable lucidity how we came to be the way we are.
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De eeuw van Schnitzler, Peter Gay
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- Année de publication
- 2002
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- Titre
- De eeuw van Schnitzler
- Sous-titre
- een nieuwe geschiedenis van de negentiende eeuw
- Auteurs
- Peter Gay
- Éditeur
- De Bezige Bij
- Publié
- 2002
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN10
- 9023400542
- ISBN13
- 9789023400547
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Thème historique, Thèmes psychologiques, 19e siècle, Histoire de l'Europe, Manuels d'histoire, Histoires culturelles, Vienne, Sigmund Freud
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- 3,45 sur 5
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- We have Always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the nineteenth century. Yet Peter Gay asserts in this provocative, seminal work that it is the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright, Arthur Schnitzler, who provides a better symbol for the age. Challenging many of the sacrosanct theories of such intellectual luminaries as Darwin and Freud, Gay chronicles the rise of modernity in countries as diverse as Germany and Italy, England and the United States, and in doing so presents a century filled with science and superstition, revolutionaries and reactionaries, eros and anxiety -- in short, an age of contradiction rendered remarkably clear by one of our most eloquent historians. Not since Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror has a century been brought alive as dramatically. Schnitzler's Century is nothing less than a tour de force, a work that tells us with remarkable lucidity how we came to be the way we are.