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The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 2: The Tender Passion (Gay, Peter//Bourgeois Experience) by Gay, Peter, 1923- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Whereas Education of the Senses focused on the sexual attitudes and practices of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, The Tender Passion concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his first volume, Gay argues here that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexuality but to know love in its most exalted sense. The realities of love for the Victorians, he shows, came much closer to their ideals than many have thought. Gay delves into a huge body of material

Author

Gay, Peter, 1923-

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195033526

Subjects

Sociology, History, Psychology

Rating

3.45 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14