![]() ![]() The nineteenth century was intensely preoccupied with the self, to the point of neurosis. In this magnificent and acclaimed work, the world's Victorians are laid bare. By focusing on the lives, institutions, attitudes, tastes, goals and passions of the West's middle classes, Gay has revolutionised our thinking about the ninteenth century as a whole and, in particular, about the social group that was its dymano - the middle class. Volume IV of The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud: 'One of the major historical enterprises of the decade' - New York Review of Books Peter Gay's epic multi-volume history of the ninteenth century - The Bougeois Experience is, unquestionably, one of the great achievements in the modern writing of history. ![]()
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