
With this book, Peter Gay begins a project of enormous scope and imagination: a multi-volume study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I. he Bourgeois Experience, which will eventually comprise at least five volumes, explores...


Education of the Senses draws on a vast array of primary sources to reexamine nineteenth-century sexual behavior, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality.

Education of the Senses, the first book of Peter Gay's projectedmulti-volume study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s tothe outbreak of World War I, re-examines the sexual behavior and attitudes ofVictorians.
