The Bourgeois Experience: Tender Passion v. 2: Victoria to Freud (Galaxy Books, #801) (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, III)

by Peter Gay

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With this book, Peter Gay begins a project of enormous scope and imagination: a multi-volume study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I. he Bourgeois Experience, which will eventually comprise at least five volumes, explores the much-neglected but all-important role that human drives and emotions played in the shaping of Victorian culture.
In Education of the Senses Gay re-examines the sexual behavior and attitudes of the Victorians, overturning many ttpersistent myths about the era and challenging, in particular, the notion that bourgeois women could not enjoy sexuality. Immense in scope yet finely detailed, this book abounds in fascinating glimpses of individual lives. A provocative and absorbing study, Education of the Senses marks an auspicious beginning to a project that promises to change the way we view the past.
  • ISBN10 0195051831
  • ISBN13 9780195051834
  • Publish Date 1 January 1996 (first published 12 January 1984)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 528
  • Language English