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The Dog That Did Not Bark in the Night
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BOOK WORLD
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10 / 1986 |
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Bernard Rodgers
Bernard Rodgers is vice president and dean of Simon's Rock
College of Bard in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His most
recent book is Voices and Visions: Selected Essays (2001). |
THE BOURGEOIS EXPERIENCE
Victoria to Freud Volume I
- The Education of the Senses
Peter Gay
New York University Press, 1984
534 pp., $25.00
THE BOURGEOIS EXPERIENCE
Victoria to Freud Volume II
- The Tender Passion
Peter Gay
New York Oxford University Press, 1986
490 pp., $24.95
FREUD FOR HISTORIANS
Peter Gay
New York, Oxford University Press, 1985
252 pp., $17.95
The dusty family portrait of the nineteenth-century bourgeois stored in most of our intellectual attics is the collaborative effort of nearly a hundred years of angry masters. Goethe, Byron, Shelley, and the other romantics sketched its outlines; Austen, Stendhal, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and the other nineteenth-century novelists filled in its details; Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud reshaped its composition with bold strokes; Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Mann, Proust, and their modernist contemporaries added the final touches. And since their time it has remained in place, largely undisturbed, its accuracy seldom questioned. Peter Gay has had the audacity not only to pull the
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