The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freudvolume 2: ^Bthe Tender Passion^r

by Peter Gay

Book Overview

Education of the Senses, the first volume of Peter Gay's The Bourgeois Experience, was hailed as "a subtle, elegant, profound and prodigiously researched book" (Washington Post Book World), "the most learned, as well as the wittiest, survey of human sexuality ever to be published" (The New York Times). In this, the second volume, Gay continues his eloquent, psychoanalytically informed exploration of the lives of the Victorian middle classes. Whereas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195051831
• ISBN13: 9780195051834
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.0"