Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered-only too often invented-a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it.Īggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more.
Peter Gay is not to be numbered among the purveyors of correct portraiture or historical. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights. This remarkable biography briskly traces the story of Freuds life and education, deftly weaving the familiar. In many cases, Freud writes in his Leonardo da Vinci. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artists Memoir of the Jim Crow South, by the late Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. About the Book The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression-and debate about aggression-that raged through the Victorian Age. In his encyclopedic The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (five volumes between 19), Gay explored in wonderfully readable prose a wide range of aspects of the European.
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