The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume 1: Education of the Senses
by Gay, Peter
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Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper 32pp photoplates Social History Oxford University Press New York 1984 orig.cloth 24x16cm, 534,(32) pp Contents: Orientations; A Sketch Map; Dimensions of Experience; The Strain of Definition; From Names to Things; Tempting Simplicities; A Battle of Perceptions; Architects and Martyrs of Change; The Sway of the New; An Age of Express Trains; Education of the Senses; Bourgeois Experiences, I: An Erotic Record; Mabel Loomis; Mabel Loomis Todd; Mabel Loomis Dickinson; Sweet Bourgeios Communions; A Paradise for Two; The Dubious Certainty of Numbers; The Problematic Sex; Offensive Women and Defensive Men; Women on the March; Manhood in Danger; The Castrating Sisterhood; Sex in Mind and Body; Pressures of Reality; Facts of Life and Death; From Conscience to Control; The Struggle over Malthus; Learned Ignorance; An Age of Factitious Innocence; A Profession of Anxiety; The Flight into Knowledge; Carnal Knowledge; Platonic Libertinism; Lessons from the Body; Readers in Conflict; The Doctrine of Distance; Fortifications for the Self; A Search for Safety; Social Science as Cultural Symptom; The Democratization of Comfort; The Private Experience; Appendix A: A Note on the Sexual Symbols in Mabel Loomis Todd's Diaries.
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- Title
- The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume 1: Education of the Senses
- Author
- Gay, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Middle Classe Bourgeois Europe United States Nineteenth Century Historical Sociology Psychology Psychological
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