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Gay, Peter

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ISBN 10 : 0195051831 ISBN 13 : 9780195051834

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1996

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The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love. It explores an anxiety-provoking time when the boundaries between erotic expressiveness and reserve began to give way, changing the experience of love. "One of the major historical enterprises of the decade. . . . An enterprise requiring a daring and breadth of knowledge possessed by few other contemporary historians." --Gordon A. Craig, New York Review of Books "Gay's writing has an artist's feel for the flow and rhythms of language, and his extensive and exquisitely managed research is blended into a unified structure that consistently serves the author's purpose." --San Francisco Chronicle "The vicissitudes of the 'tender passion' in both the fiction and the real lives of the Victorians is an enthralling subject." --Anthony Storr, The Spectator

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Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. He lives in New York City.

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�diteurOxford University Press Inc
Date d'�dition1996
ISBN 10 0195051831
ISBN 13 9780195051834
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Nombre de pages528
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The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 2: The Tender Passion (The Bourgeois Experience : Victoria to Freud, Vol II) (v. 2)

Gay, Peter

Edit� par Oxford University Press (1987)

ISBN 10 : 0195051831 ISBN 13 : 9780195051834

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Description du livre Soft cover. Etat : New. 2nd Edition. Synopsis: Education of the Senses, the first volume of Peter Gay's The Bourgeois Experience, was hailed as "a subtle, elegant, profound and prodigiously researched book" (Washington Post Book World), "the most learned, as well as the wittiest, survey of human sexuality ever to be published" (The New York Times). In this, the second volume, Gay continues his eloquent, psychoanalytically informed exploration of the lives of the Victorian middle classes. Whereas Education of the Senses focused on Victorians' sexual behavior and attitudes, The Tender Passion concentrates on their notions of love. Gay argues that, contrary to popular belief, Victorians were able to know love in its most exalted sense. "Freud was only summing up the current wisdom," he writes, "when he observed that 'a completely normal attitude in love' requires the uniting of 'two currents,' the 'tender and sensual.'" Beginning with the stories of two young men, one English and one German, Gay proceeds to a wide-ranging inquiry into the ideal and real meaning of love for the Victorians. Based on a vast amount of material--including philosophical treatises, medical texts, letters, diaries, works of fiction, and art--the book explores such topics as homosexual love, class differences in the perception of love, and the diversion of love in music and religion. There are also fascinating insights into the lives of eminent 19th-century figures, including Dickens, Stendhal, Balzac, Wagner, and Beatrice Webb. A work of remarkable erudition and analytical sophistication, The Tender Passion is an impressive addition to "one of the major historical enterprises of the decade" (The New York Review of Books). About the Author: About the Author: Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, is author of Weimar Culture; Freud, Jews and Other Germans; Style in History, and, most recently, Freud for Historians. He won a National Book Award for the first volume of his acclaimed study, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. N� de r�f. du vendeur ABE-1636670959230

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