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The bourgeois experience
Victoria to Freud
By Gay, Peter
- ISBN
- 978-0-39303-813-2
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1984-c1998.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1995
The fourth volume of Gay's "The Bourgeois Experience" (after Education of the Senses, Oxford Univ. Pr., 1984; The Tender Passion, LJ 2/15/86; and The Cultivation of Hatred, LJ 9/1/93) focuses on the 19th-century bourgeois preoccupation with the self. The author examines "the democratization of romantic love, the fashion for autobiography, biography, history, and imaginative fiction, t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
