Author: Gay, Peter
Title: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume 1: Education of the Senses
Description: New York, Oxford University Press, 1984. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, 534,(32) pp. 32pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Orientations; A Sketch Map; Dimensions of Experience; The Strain of Definition; From Names to Things; Tempting Simplicities; A Battle of Perceptions; Architects and Martyrs of Change; The Sway of the New; An Age of Express Trains; Education of the Senses; Bourgeois Experiences, I: An Erotic Record; Mabel Loomis; Mabel Loomis Todd; Mabel Loomis Dickinson; Sweet Bourgeios Communions; A Paradise for Two; The Dubious Certainty of Numbers; The Problematic Sex; Offensive Women and Defensive Men; Women on the March; Manhood in Danger; The Castrating Sisterhood; Sex in Mind and Body; Pressures of Reality; Facts of Life and Death; From Conscience to Control; The Struggle over Malthus; Learned Ignorance; An Age of Factitious Innocence; A Profession of Anxiety; The Flight into Knowledge; Carnal Knowledge; Platonic Libertinism; Lessons from the Body; Readers in Conflict; The Doctrine of Distance; Fortifications for the Self; A Search for Safety; Social Science as Cultural Symptom; The Democratization of Comfort; The Private Experience; Appendix A: A Note on the Sexual Symbols in Mabel Loomis Todd's Diaries.

Keywords: Social History, Middle Classe, Bourgeois Europe, United States, Nineteenth Century, Historical, Sociology, Psychology, Psychological