Edutn of the Sens: The Bourgeois... book by Peter Gay

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• EDUTN AND THE SENS. BY PETER GAY. (PP. 534; £8.50 PB.) OXFORD UNIVERSY PRS: OXFORD. 1984. - THE TENR PASSN. BY PETER GAY. (PP. 490; £19.50 HB.) OXFORD UNIVERSY PRS: OXFORD. 1986.

EDUTN AND THE SENS. BY PETER GAY. (PP. 534; £8.50 PB.) OXFORD UNIVERSY PRS: OXFORD. 1984. - THE TENR PASSN. BY PETER GAY. (PP. 490; £19.50 HB.) OXFORD UNIVERSY PRS: OXFORD. 1986.

002 Available Quanty:Book OverviewEdutn of the Sens, the first book of Peter Gay's projectedmulti-volume study of the European and Amerin middle class om the 1820s tothe outbreak of World War I, re-exam the sexual behavr and attus ofVictorians. by Peter Gay.

By Peter Gay. '') Peter Gay propos to vtigate and expla the ner world of the European and Amerin middle class om the 1820's to the outbreak of World War I. Gay, who is a profsor of history at Yale Universy, tends to boldly go not where no man has gone before, but at least where few historians of his distctn have strayed for so long.

Gay's psychohistoril method and the subject matter and kds of evince on which he choos to exercise . Gay is simply heedg.

Gay's ncerns are very novel. Gay qutns ''Tirias's improbable specificy'' but his tirels pursu of evince to save Victorian women om their asexual, anthetic,.

Gay paras an astonishg and fascatg army of sexual tail om that era. Gay provis even the sounds of Victorian women asm, taken om rerds the Gonurt brothers France kept wh a surgil. Gay's pot that the sexls stereotype is far om the whole story of Victorian femy.

Gay is particularly alert to the ample sourc of rnal knowledge supplied by Victorian art and lerature. Gay is good too on the nfns that uld arise when the signifince of the fig leaf and the anatomil differenc ncealed.