The bourgeois experience : Victoria to Freud : vol 3. - The cultivation of hatred

Peter Gay

This volume explores the complex interplay between aggression and historical change during the Victorian period. 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. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it.