Tender passion

"First published as a Norton paperback 1999 by arrangement with Oxford University Press"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-469) and index.

Bourgeois Experiences, II: Counterpoint -- 1.. The Real Thing -- 2.. New Objects for Old -- 3.. Love and Work -- 1. Two Currents of Love -- 1.. Conflicting Legacies -- 2.. Cynics and Enthusiasts -- 3.. From Physiology to Psychology -- 2. Experience: The Best Teacher -- 1.. Sober Realities -- 2.. Desire, Holy and Pure -- 3. The Work of Fiction -- 1.. A Community of Fantasies -- 2.. Hearts, Undisciplined and Others -- 3.. Beyond Good and Evil -- 4. Problematic Attachments -- 1.. Dividends of Denial -- 2.. The Return of the Repressed -- 3.. An Antique Persuasion -- 5. Stratagems of Sensuality -- 1.. The Food of Love -- 2.. A Budget of Displacements -- 3.. Glandular Christianity -- 4.. Sexualizing Modernity -- 6. The Price of Repression -- 1.. The Modern Malady of Love -- 2.. From Hysteria to Remorse -- Epilogue: Black-Coated Eros -- 1.. Between Condescension and Envy -- 2.. The Lion in Love: Last Thoughts.

"The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love. It explores an anxiety-provoking time when the boundaries between erotic expressiveness and reserve began to give way, changing the experience of love. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.