Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Midd..., Gay, Peter

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Publication Year: 2001 Item Height: 1.2 in Author: Peter Gay Language: English Illustrator: Yes Artist: Gay, Peter Release Title: Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815... EAN: 9780393048933 Topic: Civilization, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, European / General, General, Customs & Traditions, Europe / General Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History Number of Pages: 352 Pages Type: Hardback Format: Hardcover Item Length: 10.2 in Item Width: 7 in ISBN: 0393048934 Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w. Book Title: Schnitzler's Century : the Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914 Date of Publication: 2001-11-17 width: 7 in height: 1.2 in Item Weight: 24.1 Oz

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Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Midd..., Gay, Peter. Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914. An audacious work,Schnitzler's Century reassesses nineteenth-century history and traces the dramatic rise of the middle class. We have always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the nineteenth century. Can't find what you're looking for? Home page About us Feedback Payment Delivery Customer Service Contact us Shop by Price $10.34 $10.35 - $12.34 $12.35 - $14.34 $14.35 - $16.34 $16.35+ Shop pages Home page Payment Delivery Customer Service About the seller Need help? Send an eBay message Newsletter Add World of Books to your favourites and receive email newsletters about special promotions! General Interest Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914 Product Details: Category: Books ISBN: 0393048934 Title: Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914 The Fast Free Shipping Author: Gay, Peter Publisher: WW Norton & Co Year Published: 2001 Number of Pages: 368 Book Binding: Hardback Prizes: Short-listed for Connecticut Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2003 Book Condition: GOOD SKU: CIN0393048934G Item description An audacious work, Schnitzler's Century reassesses nineteenth-century history and traces the dramatic rise of the middle class. 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 sacrosanct notions about middle-class prudery and hypocrisy, he shows that in important ways, the Victorians were not Victorians. 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 anxietyin 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. 13 b/w illustrations. Please note, the image is for illustrative purposes only, actual book cover, binding and edition may vary. Payment Delivery Customer Service About Us We only accept payments made through PayPal, either via a credit / debit card or a PayPal account. The average shipping times for our orders are as follows: North America: 2-9 Days If for some reason your order has not arrived within 15 Business days please get in contact with us so that we can help you. World of Books USA offer a hassle free money back guarantee for your product, (excluding shipping & handling). We are committed to ensuring each customer is entirely satisfied with their purchase and our service. If you have any issues or concerns, please contact our customer service team within 60 days of purchase and they will be more than happy to help. World of Books USA was founded in 2005. We offer great value books on a wide range of subjects and we now ship over two million orders each year to satisfied customers throughout the world. We take great pride in our prompt delivery, first class customer service and excellent feedback. While we do our best to provide good quality books for you to read, there is no escaping the fact that it has been owned and read by someone else before you. It may well show signs of wear and tear, however each one of our books is hand-checked by our dedicated team for defects before shipping. World of Books sells quality used products at competitive prices to over 2 million customers worldwide each year. We want your experience with World of Books to be enjoyable and problem free. Over the past 8 years World of Books has seen the inventory grow from 1000 to over 1 Million books in stock. We all like the idea of saving a bit of cash, so when we found out how many good quality used products are out there - we just had to let you know! All of our items are checked for quality before they go on sale and we like to think that our prices mean that no item is beyond your budget. At World of Books we are committed to minimising our environmental impact. Each month we recycle over 2.3 million books, saving over 12,500 metric tonnes of books a year from going straight into landfill sites. All of our paper waste is recycled within the UK and turned into corrugated cardboard. We believe that it is a travesty to simply throw away a used book or DVD when there is nothing wrong with it - we believe in giving each book or DVD the chance of finding a new home Home page About us Feedback Payment Delivery Customer Service Contact us