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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Education of The Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Education of the Senses (The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud #1) by Peter Gay Education of the Senses (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud #1) by Peter Gay. PEP-Web Tip of the Day. If you get a large number of results after searching for an article by a specific author, you can refine your search by adding the author’s first initial. For example, try writing “Freud, S.” in the Author box of the Search Tool. For the complete list of tips, see PEP-Web Tips on the PEP-Web support page. Welcome to PEP Web! Viewing the full text of this document requires a subscription to PEP Web. If you are coming in from a university from a registered IP address or secure referral page you should not need to log in. Contact your university librarian in the event of problems. If you have a personal subscription on your own account or through a Society or Institute please put your username and password in the box below. 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His interest in psychoanalysis became manifest about a decade ago with a book of historiography, Art and Act. On Causes in History—Manet, Gropius, Mondrian , where he argued persuasively for the necessity of giving due weight to the psychological determinants of cultural events. He has been one of the most influential among historians who emphasize the singular importance of Sigmund Freud in shaping the civilization of our times, an estimate proclaimed through the very title of Gay's recent book, Freud, Jews and Other Germans . These intellectual commitments continue to pervade Gay's work, presently focused on the social history of the 19th century bourgeoisie in Western Europe and its American counterparts: Sigmund Freud is once again given star billing in the title of this enormous enterprise. Education of the Senses is the first volume in a series that will examine the life of the Victorian middle class from a variety of viewpoints; when it was published, the exact organization of the work as a whole had not as yet been decided. It is apparent, however, that we are being presented with a major effort in the new genre of history inaugurated in France some decades ago by the group associated with the journal Annales , the best known among whom is probably Fernand Braudel. The latter entitled one of his capital books The Structures of Everyday Life —a designation that could serve admirably to characterize the program of Gay's current work. [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] WARNING! This text is printed for personal use. It is copyright to the journal in which it originally appeared. It is illegal to redistribute it in any form. Education of the Senses (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud #1) by Peter Gay. Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience: From Victoria to Freud. �@�@The overviews on the dust jackets of Peter Gay's 5-volume The Bourgeois Experience: From Victoria to Freud cannot be found on the internet. That's why they are here. Volume 1, Education of the Senses. �@�@Traditional views of sexuality in the Victorian age have left us with an unflattering picture of a devious, insincere world populated by mistresskeeping husbands and sexually anesthetic wives. But is this familiar image a fair and accurate one? In this remarkable book�Xthe first volume in a monumental new study of nineteenth-century bourgeois culture�@the renowned historian Peter Gay overturns a myriad of stereotypes as he re-examines the sexual behavior and attitudes of this era and its much-maligned middle classes. Drawing upon the insights of psychoanalysis and a vast array of primary sources, Gay unveils a milieu much richer in paradox, ambivalence, and possibility than any previous work has revealed. �@�@At once immense in scope and finely detailed, the book abounds in fascinating glimpses of individual lives. Chief among these is the story of Mabel Loomis Todd, a New England wife who savored her vibrant sensuality to the fullest�Xeven to the point of carrying on a lengthy affair with Austin Dickinson, the leading patriarch of genteel Amherst, Massachusetts. Astonishingly, Mrs. Todd��s defiance of respectability (a "secret" known both to her husband and to other citizens of Amherst) did not make her an outcast a fact which Gay sees as a striking sign that bourgeois boundaries of conduct in the 1800s were never so rigid and narrow as many have thought. And, as the author also points out, Mrs. Todd's experiences, which she scrupulously recorded in her journal, fly in the face of the notion that women of her background could not enjoy their sexuality. �@�@According to Gay, Mabel Todd's story, though exceptional in many ways, mirrored the yearnings and passions of countless others in the nineteenth century. From diaries, letters, autobiographies, medical texts, and even sex surveys, he meticulously reconstructs the private worlds of these individuals and shows that Mrs. Todd was far from alone. In the process, he confronts an array of important questions: How did the Victorians discover sexuality? What did they know, and what did they repress? How did outside pressures and realities affect their erotic lives? Gay's search for answers leads to a wide-ranging exploration into such areas as contraceptives and abortion, pornography, the nude in works of art, fears about pregnancy and infant mortality, marriage-night anxiety, masturbation, attitudes toward women, and the ideal of privacy. �@�@A brilliant product of both massive research and analytical acumen, this book will undoubtedly stir controversy. And just as certainly, it will change the way we view the past. Volume 2, The Tender Passion. �@�@ THE DUCATION OF THE SENSES , the first volume of Peter Gay's The Bourgeois Experience , was published in 1984 to enormous acclaim. Critics hailed it as "a subtle, elegant, profound and prodigiously researched book" ( The Washington Post Book World ), "an astonishing achievement" ( Newsweek ) and "the most learned, as well as the wittiest, survey of human sexuality ever to be published" ( The New York Times ). Now, in The Tender Passion , Gay continues his eloquent, psychoanalytically informed exploration of the Victorian era and its middle classes in Western Europe and America. �@�@Whereas Education of the Senses focused on the sexual attitudes of the nineteenth- century bourgeoisie, The Tender Passion concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in the 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. Gay begins with a compelling analysis of the separate love stories of two young men, one English and one German, and proceeds from there to a wide-ranging inquiry into what love meant to the Victorians, both as an ideal and as a reality. "There was in fact one essential principle," Gay writes, "on which cynics, metaphysicians, researchers, and ordinary bourgeois could cheerfully unite: true love is the conjunction of concupiscence with affection. Freud was only summing up the current wisdom when he observed that 'a completely normal attitude in love' requires the uniting of 'two currents,' the ' tender and sensual !'" �@�@Arguing that the realities of love for the Victorians came much closer to their ideals than many have thought, Gay delves into a vast body of material, from philosophical treatises to medical texts, from letters and diaries to works of fiction. The book abounds with fascinating insights into the lives and writings of individual Victoritins: Dickens, Stendhal, Balzac, Wagner, Oscar Wilde, Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb, among them. Gay's discussions range from the "discovery" of homosexuality to the various ways love was diverted or disguised in music and religion. He compares middle class, working class, and peasant perceptions of love and sexuality, examining as well the way in which each class perceived love and sexuality in other classes. �@�@A work of remarkable erudition, analytical sophistication, and stylistic verve, The Tender Passion is an impressive addition to a monumental historical enterprise. Volume 3, The Cultivation of Hatred. �@�@"War," exclaimed Thomas Mann as the European powder keg exploded in 1914, "was purification, liberation, and an enormous hope." His was not the only voice edged with eagerness for battle. For nearly a hundred years, aggression had lurked beneath the surface of bourgeois culture, emerging occasionally to split the social order into insiders and outsiders. The Victorians, like members of other cultures, gave themselves permission to ridicule, bully, patronize, and exploit individuals and classes, races and nations they deemed to be inferior. But they also sought civilized rationales for their conduct, whether in the hunt for profits from new commercial ventures or for power in the political arena or for dominance over new movements that were bringing women out from domesticity.
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