The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 1: Education of the Senses (v. 1)
"Gay's book is controversial but brilliant (as are most of his books).  It is well-written and thoroughly researched and should be an excellent required reading for my upper division cultural history of Europe course.  My students should have endless fun arguing with Professor Gay and his hero, Sigmund Freud."--Richard Camp,California State University"[The first volume of] what promises to be one of the major historical enterprises of the decade."--The New York Review of Books"Gay has written a first-rate synthesis of one of the dimensions most central to the so-called 'bourgeois experience,' sexuality and sexual behavior."--Gerald Michael Schnabel,Bemidji State University"Legitimize[s] sexuality itself as a subject of serious historical research...a wonderful and literate book."--Journal of Modern History"Magisterial...witty and ingenious....Everything about this book is excellent."--Review of Psychoanalytic Books