num_pages: 366
description: Documents the extraordinary rise of the middle class by focusing on Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler, who defined the mores of the nineteenth century, and challenges the many theories from such intellectual innovators as Darwin and Freud, presenting a century filled with science and superstition, revolutionaries and reactionaries, and eros and anxiety. 25,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914
titlecomplete: Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914
genres: Biography, European History, Nonfiction, 19th Century, History
ratings_count: 173
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc