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The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In The Naked Heart, Peter Gay explores the bourgeoisie's turn inward. 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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Gay
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393243444
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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