By focusing on the lives, attitudes, discontents, institutions, tastes, goals and passions of the West's middle classes, Gay has redefined the reader's thinking about the 19th century as a whole, and about the social grouping that was its dynamo, the middle class, in particular. He reveals the making and workings of the bourgeois mind: the world's Victorians stand analyzed and unmasked. Gay draws on the thoughts, words and deeds of physicians, merchants, teachers, housewives, novelists, painters, artisans and politicians, ...
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By focusing on the lives, attitudes, discontents, institutions, tastes, goals and passions of the West's middle classes, Gay has redefined the reader's thinking about the 19th century as a whole, and about the social grouping that was its dynamo, the middle class, in particular. He reveals the making and workings of the bourgeois mind: the world's Victorians stand analyzed and unmasked. Gay draws on the thoughts, words and deeds of physicians, merchants, teachers, housewives, novelists, painters, artisans and politicians, using diaries, letters, household manuals, medical texts, lectures, religious tracts and works of art to produce a collective portrait of the century that made the modern world, that made us what we are - here depicted in all its rich, chaotic complexity.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 685 p. Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud; V.3 and Computation. Audience: General/trade.
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Good. We flipped through this book and didn't notice any notes or underlines. Minor shelf wear. Very slight shelf wear to the dust jacket. This is a hardcover copy. Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.