The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud

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Author: Peter Gay ISBN: 9780393243444
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: October 17, 1996
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Peter Gay
ISBN: 9780393243444
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: October 17, 1996
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

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

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

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