
At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport. Following the middle class's preoccupation with...

At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport." Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness...
