The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud

by Gay, Peter

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1995. BC4 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows very minor overlal shelf wear mainly in the form of some very light edge wear on the spine top edge. An investigation of the gap between the scientific & economic efforts of scientists, engineers, & capitalists & the inward looking bourgeoisie culture. The author ranges from petty clerks, small merchants, & those without university education through business magnates, academics, artists, & the aristocracy primarily examing such primary documents as letters & confessional diaries. Illustrated with black & white photographs. This is the fourth volume in the author's "Bourgeois Experience" series, an investigation of the ideas & sensibilities that dominated 19th century culture. The author is a winner & a finalist for the Ntional Book Award. By the author of "The Rise of Modern Paganism," "Freud," & "Style in History." Endnotes, bibliographical essay, acknowledgments, indexed, 463p. This book weighs more than 2 pounds when packaged to ship.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.