The Bourgeois Experience: Education of the Senses v.1 (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud) - Hardcover

Gay, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195033523 ISBN 13: 9780195033526

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1984

Synopsis

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 534 pages; Description: 534 p. , 16 leaves of plates ; 25 cm. Subjects: Middle class --Europe --History --19th century --Sex customs --United States --Sex (Psychology) --Love --Psychoanalysis and culture

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Review:

"Gay's book is controversial but brilliant (as are most of his books). It is well-written and thoroughly researched and should be an excellent required reading for my upper division cultural history of Europe course. My students should have endless fun arguing with Professor Gay and his hero, Sigmund Freud."--Richard Camp, California State University"[The first volume of] what promises to be one of the major historical enterprises of the decade."--The New York Review of Books"Gay has written a first-rate synthesis of one of the dimensions most central to the so-called 'bourgeois experience, ' sexuality and sexual behavior."--Gerald Michael Schnabel, Bemidji State University"Legitimize[s] sexuality itself as a subject of serious historical research...a wonderful and literate book."--Journal of Modern History"Magisterial...witty and ingenious....Everything about this book is excellent."--Review of Psychoanalytic Books "Gay's book is controversial but brilliant (as are most of his books). It is well-written and thoroughly researched and should be an excellent required reading for my upper division cultural history of Europe course. My students should have endless fun arguing with Professor Gay and his hero, Sigmund Freud."--Richard Camp, California State University "[The first volume of] what promises to be one of the major historical enterprises of the decade."--The New York Review of Books "Gay has written a first-rate synthesis of one of the dimensions most central to the so-called 'bourgeois experience, ' sexuality and sexual behavior."--Gerald Michael Schnabel, Bemidji State University "Legitimize[s] sexuality itself as a subject of serious historical research...a wonderful and literate book."--Journal of Modern History "Magisterial...witty and ingenious....Everything about this book is excellent."--Review of Psychoanalytic Books "Gay's book is controversial but brilliant (as are most of his books). It is well-written and thoroughly researched and should be an excellent required reading for my upper division cultural history of Europe course. My students should have endless fun arguing with Professor Gay and his hero, Sigmund Freud."--Richard Camp, California State University "[The first volume of] what promises to be one of the major historical enterprises of the decade."--The New York Review of Books "Gay has written a first-rate synthesis of one of the dimensions most central to the so-called 'bourgeois experience, ' sexuality and sexual behavior."--Gerald Michael Schnabel, Bemidji State University "Legitimize[s] sexuality itself as a subject of serious historical research...a wonderful and literate book."--Journal of Modern History "Magisterial...witty and ingenious....Everything about this book is excellent."--Review of Psychoanalytic Books "Gay's book is controversial but brilliant (as are most of his books). It is well-written and thoroughly researched and should be an excellent required reading for my upper division cultural history of Europe course. My students should have endless fun arguing with Professor Gay and his hero, Sigmund Freud."--Richard Camp, California State University"[The first volume of] what promises to be one of the major historical enterprises of the decade."--The New York Review of Books"Gay has written a first-rate synthesis of one of the dimensions most central to the so-called 'bourgeois experience, ' sexuality and sexual behavior."--Gerald Michael Schnabel, Bemidji State University"Legitimize[s] sexuality itself as a subject of serious historical research...a wonderful and literate book."--Journal of Modern History"Magisterial...witty and ingenious....Everything about this book is excellent."--Review of Psychoanalytic Books

About the Author:

Peter Gay is director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0195033523
• ISBN 13: 9780195033526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544