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Pleasure Wars

Categorie	Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer	#370713
Titel	Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
Auteur	Gay, Peter
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave	1998
ISBN10	0393318273
ISBN13	9780393318272
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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, from philosophical treatises to medical texts, from letters and diaries to works of fiction. The book is replete with fascinating insights into the lives and works of individual Victorians, Dickens, Stendhal, Wagner, Oscar Wilde, Beatrice Potter and Sydney Webb, among them, and his discussions range from the "discovery" of homosexuality to the ways love was diverted or disguised in music and religion.
Pagina's	324
Conditie	Goed — Corners and edges slightly worn.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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