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<p><P> 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. </p></p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>The fifth and final volume in his acclaimed series, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, revises our understanding of Victorian high culture and the birth of modernism. In Gay's analysis, "bourgeoisphobes" like Flaubert, Marx, William Morris and Balzac nurtured the myth of a uniformly materialistic Victorian middle classa colorless lot with no inkling of the inner life. A corollary of this partisan myth, asserts the author, is that avant-garde artists fought a dominant, conventional bourgeoisie. On the contrary, argues Gay, who keeps psychoanalytic theory to a minimum in this volume, Victorian middle-class taste, though generally cautious and conservative, often embraced the innovative and experimental; the bourgeois canons detested by artistic rebels were not immutablein fact, the avant-garde survived by changing the taste of the paying public. Gay focuses on the pivotal role of the bourgeois d

Author

Peter Gay. 5, Pleasure wars

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780006380894

Subjects

Social Science, Psychology, History

Rating

3.45 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14