![]() ![]() For the Victorians we meet in this volume are not the stodgy, complacent characters of drawing-room comedy. ![]() So Peter Gay opens his newest and perhaps most surprising work. "In the Victorian decades, the name bourgeois was at once a term of reproach and a source of self-respect". 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. 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."In the Victo. ![]()
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