The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud

by Peter Gay

Book Overview

At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport.

Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness through its varied cultural expressions (such as fiction, art, history, and autobiography), Gay turns also to the letters and confessional diaries of both obscure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393315150
• ISBN13: 9780393315158
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Intellectually exciting!

If you enjoy reading about the XIX century, its artistic, literary and mind revolutions, read this book. Dont worry if it is a forth volume of a collection... one doesnt depend on the other. Here you find the intellectual anxieties of the middle class in Europe, the search of themselves in music, paintings and books. Peter Gay leads you in a trip to the XIX century... and he goes further... till reach the naked heart of those who shaped the Contemporary Age.