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The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud, Vol. 4

Name: The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud, Vol. 4
ISBN: 9780393038132

Gay, Peter

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A renowned historian explores the inner life of the Victorian middle class, discussing the influence of artists and writers such as Delacroix and Gustave Flaubert on the attitudes of the bourgeois toward the self. By the author of Freud.

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 and prominent men and women. These revealing documents help to round out a sparkling portrait of an age.

Categorie:

History - European History

Volume:

Anno:

1995

Casa editrice:

W W Norton & Co Inc

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

463

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