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Gay's exploration of middle-class Victorian culture features vivid portraits of influential figures such as Bismarck, Darwin, George Eliot, and notable satirists like Daumier and Wilhelm Busch. The work examines the complex dynamics between men and women, wit, and demagoguery, revealing how the nineteenth century simultaneously constrained and sanctioned aggressive behavior. This aggression created a divide within society, categorizing individuals into insiders and outsiders. Gay notes that the Victorians, by forming communities of insiders, often invented a world of strangers—comprising individuals and classes, races, and nations—that it was deemed acceptable to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate. The bottled-up aggressions of this era could not remain contained indefinitely, ultimately culminating in the outbreak of the First World War.

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The Cultivation of Hatred, Peter Gay

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Titolo
The Cultivation of Hatred
Lingua
Inglese
Autori
Peter Gay
Pubblicato
1994
Formato
Copertina rigida
Pagine
704
ISBN10
0002552183
ISBN13
9780002552189
Titolo originale
The cultivation of hatred
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Gay's exploration of middle-class Victorian culture features vivid portraits of influential figures such as Bismarck, Darwin, George Eliot, and notable satirists like Daumier and Wilhelm Busch. The work examines the complex dynamics between men and women, wit, and demagoguery, revealing how the nineteenth century simultaneously constrained and sanctioned aggressive behavior. This aggression created a divide within society, categorizing individuals into insiders and outsiders. Gay notes that the Victorians, by forming communities of insiders, often invented a world of strangers—comprising individuals and classes, races, and nations—that it was deemed acceptable to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate. The bottled-up aggressions of this era could not remain contained indefinitely, ultimately culminating in the outbreak of the First World War.