The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to FreudVolume 1: ^BEducation of the Senses^R - Hardcover

Gay, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195033523 ISBN 13: 9780195033526

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Education of the Senses, the first book of Peter Gay's projected multi-volume study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I, re-examines the sexual behavior and attitudes of Victorians.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Gay is at University of Yale.

Review:

"The most learned, as well as the wittiest survey of human sexuality ever to be published."--The New York Times.

"An astonishing achievement."--Newsweek.

"A major work that promises to reshape our thinking about the Victorian era."--Publishers Weekly.

"A major work of cultural history, monumental in its amibitions, immensely readable, powerfully humane. It is sure to change the way we think about our present as well as our past."--The Nation.

"If the remaining volumes of Peter Gay's extended study live up to this one, it should become a standard work, restoring to the century it treats a historical objectivity which allows us really to see, rather than to categorize patronizingly, our middle-class ancestors."--The San Francisco
Chronicle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0195033523
• ISBN 13: 9780195033526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576