Peter Gay continues his eloquent, psychoanalytically informed exploration of the Victorian era and its middle classes. Whereas Volume I, Education of the Senses , focused on the sexual attitudes and practices of the 19th century bourgeoisie, The Tender Passion concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his last volume, Gay argues that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexuality but to know love in its most exalted sense.
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Peter Gay continues his eloquent, psychoanalytically informed exploration of the Victorian era and its middle classes. Whereas Volume I, Education of the Senses , focused on the sexual attitudes and practices of the 19th century bourgeoisie, The Tender Passion concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his last volume, Gay argues that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexuality but to know love in its most exalted sense.
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New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 498 p. Bourgeois Experience-Victoria to Freud, II. Audience: General/trade. Brand new book, tight, clean, unmarked, unread.
