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The bourgeois experience : Victoria to Freud
- Title
- The bourgeois experience : Victoria to Freud / Peter Gay.
- Author
- Gay, Peter, 1923-2015.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1984-©1998.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vol.2 | Text | Use in library | HT690.E73 G39 1984 vol.2 | Off-site | |
| vol.1 | Text | Use in library | HT690.E73 G39 1984 vol.1 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 5 v. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Whereas Education of the Senses focused on the sexual attitudes and practices of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, The Tender Passion concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his first volume, Gay argues here that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexuality but to know love in its most exalted sense. The realities of love for the Victorians, he shows, came much closer to their ideals than many have thought. Gay delves into a huge body of material, from philosophical treatises to medical texts, from letters and diaries to works of fiction. The book is replete with fascinating insights into the lives and works of individual Victorians, Dickens, Stendhal, Wagner, Oscar Wilde, Beatrice Potter and Sydney Webb, among them, and his discussions range from the "discovery" of homosexuality to the ways love was diverted or disguised in music and religion.
- Alternative Title
- Education of the senses.
- Tender passion.
- Cultivation of hatred.
- Naked heart.
- Pleasure wars.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Middle class > Europe > History > 19th century
- Middle class > United States > History > 19th century
- Sex customs > Europe > History > 19th century
- Sex customs > United States > History > 19th century
- Sex (Psychology)
- Love
- Psychoanalysis and culture
- Sex (Psychology) > Social aspects > History > Europe, Western > 19th century
- Sex > Psychology > Social aspects > History > United States > 19th century
- Middle class > Europe, Western > History > 19th century
- Love
- love (emotion)
- Sex (Psychology) > Social aspects
- Middle class
- Psychoanalysis and culture
- Sex customs
- Sexualverhalten
- Sexualität
- Seksualiteit
- Liefde
- Burgerij
- Classe Social
- Geschichte (1800-1900)
- Sozialgeschichte 1800-1900
- Western Europe
- Europe
- United States
- Europa
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Publisher varies: vols. 3-5 , W.W. Norton.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- v. 1. Education of the senses -- v. 2. The tender passion -- v. 3. The cultivation of hatred -- v. 4. The naked heart -- v. 5. Pleasure wars.
- ISBN
- 0195033523
- 9780195033526
- 0195037413
- 9780195037418
- 0393033988
- 9780393033984
- 0393038130
- 9780393038132
- 0393045706
- 9780393045703
- 0195037286
- 9780195037289
- 0195051831
- 9780195051834
- 0006380891
- 9780006380894
- LCCN
- 83008187
- OCLC
- ocm09489007
- 9489007
- SCSB-1156640
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library