The
lI#est
POlume
in
the
II&dAimed historUm's mmJumentRl
The Tender Passion
Vol.
n
of The
Bourgeois
Experience: Victoria
to
Freud
PETER GAY
works
of
ficrion.
The
boot
is
replete
fatcirwing
imiaIua
into
the
lives
and
of
individual
VICIDriIns-Dic;kms,
W
•
Oscar
Wilde.
Bcarric:e
Potta--IIQII.-~
s"apt:r
Webb,
among
diem-and
his
~
ranse
from
the
"discovay"
of
~totheWlys~_diftrud'
or
diIpiscd
m music
and
re1igion.
Panicularly
compelling
is
the
opening
section
in
which
Gay analyzes
in depth
1M
ICparate
~
stories
of
two
young
men.
DOC
English
and
one
Gcnnan-stories
which, in
Gay's view,
"dramatize
some
of
the
careen
in
love
open
to
the
middle
class
in
the
decades
of
Victoria and beyond."
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