Education of the Senses: v. 1 - Brossura

Gay, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195037286 ISBN 13: 9780195037289

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1985

Riassunto

With this book, Peter Gay begins a project of enormous scope and imagination: a multi-volume study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I.he Bourgeois Experience, which will eventually comprise at least five volumes, explores the much-neglected but all-important role that human drives and emotions played in the shaping of Victorian culture.
In Education of the Senses Gay re-examines the sexual behavior and attitudes of the Victorians, overturning many ttpersistent myths about the era and challenging, in particular, the notion that bourgeois women could not enjoy sexuality. Immense in scope yet finely detailed, this book abounds in fascinating glimpses of individual lives. A provocative and absorbing study,Education of the Senses marks an auspicious beginning to a project that promises to change the way we view the past.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Peter Gay is director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.

Product Description:

Book by Gay Peter

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0195037286
• ISBN 13: 9780195037289
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544