The Naked Heart (Bourgeois Experience, Vol. 4) - Hardcover

Gay, Peter

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A renowned historian explores the inner life of the Victorian middle class, discussing the influence of artists and writers such as Delacroix and Gustave Flaubert on the attitudes of the bourgeois toward the self. By the author of Freud.

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Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.

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Gay believes that the Victorian bourgeoisie, and 19th-century Europe's middle classes generally, were much more introspective and prone to self-exploration than is commonly assumed. Using the autobiographies or memoirs of John Stuart Mill, George Sand, Goethe, Edmund Gosse and Thomas Carlyle, he charts a passion for self-scrutiny that made public these writers' inner struggles with belief, faith and emotion. His survey of private letters and diaries subverts the notion that Victorians regarded the male as coolly reasoning and the female as an emotional being. Yale history professor emeritus Gay (The Enlightenment) argues that Dickens, Henry James, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy enlarged the inner domain, while Eugene Sue, French serial novelist, and Karl May, German producer of potboilers, also nourished middle-class fantasies and helped shape identities. Among painters, he spotlights individualists such as Van Gogh, Courbet, James Ensor and Caspar David Friedrich, who gave fresh impetus to self-revelation. This fourth volume in Gay's The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud is a scholarly yet engrossing, enormously rich exploration of 19th-century self-discovery.
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The Naked Heart: Volume IV: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover w/ full no. line showing First Printing (September 1995), NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW green linen-over-boards cover w/ titles silver-stamped on spine, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-gold-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT paper * 6.25" x 9.50", 0.90 kg, 463 pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: Following "The Cultivation of Hated", "The Naked Heart" is the 4th & concluding volume of Peter Gay's magisterial inquiry into the ideas & sensibilities of 19th-centruy western culture: "The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud". In this concluding volume, Professor Gay explores the inward turning of the bourgeoisie. At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen & natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite & wholly serious indoor sport." Following the middle class preoccupation w/ inwardness through its varied cultural expressions (such as fiction, art, history & autobiography), Gay turns also to the letters & confessional diaries of men & women both prominent & obscure, rounding out a sparkling portrait of an age through examination of these revealing documents. * CRITICAL PRAISE: "The multitude of case histories [Peter Gay] offers constitutes much of the pleasure of reading his work. The 19th century conflicts between instinct & civilization are here as fully examined as anyone could wish." - Frank Kermode, NYTBR * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: One of America's most distinguished cultural & intellectual American historians, Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He was awarded the 1967 National Book Award for the first book in his acclaimed two-volume study, Volume I: "The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism" (1966) & Volume II: "The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom" (1969). He garnered the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Betta Kapa for "Weimar Culture" (1968). His many books include "Freud: A Life for Our Time" (National Book Award finalist, 1988), "Freud, Jews, & Other Germans" (1978), "Style in History" (National Book Award finalist, 1974), "Voltaire's Politics" (1959), "The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism" (1952), &, of course, the five volumes of his monumental masterpiece "The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud", Volume I: "Education of the Senses" (1984), Volume II: "Tender Passion" (1986), Volume III: Cultivation of Hatred (1993), Volume IV: "The Naked Heart" (1995), & Volume V: "Pleasure Wars" (1998). * SHIPPING: We custom wrap & label & securely package this SUPERB book for FREE shipment within the United States via USPS Media MaiL (or via USPS Priority Mail for a nominal $10.00 charge) and at our posted rates to international destinations via USPS First Class Airmail (recommended) or USPS Priority Airmail. Seller Inventory # 010126

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