The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud (1995)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0393038130

Condition: Very Good

The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

For decades after the romantic poets, novelists, artists, and philosophers who had celebrated the liberated spirit passed from the scene, their ideas and ideals, suitably tamed for middle-class consumption, continued to percolate through Victorian culture. At the very time that industrial and mercantile buccaneers, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists conquered new worlds through their mastery of objective facts, much of the bourgeoisie looked inward. - from the inside flap