Peter Gay

Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay

Traces the rise of Modernism in the arts from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its end in the wake of the development of Pop Art, analyzing its influences on the fields of literature, poetry, music, and other art forms and profiling key figures.

The Lure of Heresy : from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

Modernism

Essays discuss Freud's interest in Shakespeare, his choices for the names of his six children, his love of science, and his ambivalent feelings toward his father.

Explorations & Entertainments

Reading Freud

A biography and study of the psychoanalyst's career, family, personal life, and professional struggles.

A Life for Our Time

Freud

The fifth in the series of the author's accounts on the lives of the bourgeoisie, this final volume uncovers the hidden side of the nineteenth-century Victorians, portraying them as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism.

Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay

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