The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
(Book #4 in the The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Series)
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Book Overview
At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport. Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness through its varied cultural expressions (such as fiction, art, history, and autobiography), Gay turns also to the letters and confessional diaries of both obscure...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393315150
ISBN13:9780393315158
Release Date:October 1996
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:472 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
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Intellectually exciting!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
If you enjoy reading about the XIX century, its artistic, literary and mind revolutions, read this book. Dont worry if it is a forth volume of a collection... one doesnt depend on the other. Here you find the intellectual anxieties of the middle class in Europe, the search of themselves in music, paintings and books. Peter Gay leads you in a trip to the XIX century... and he goes further... till reach the naked heart of those who shaped the Contemporary Age.
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