TY - BOOK AU - Gay,Peter TI - Tender passion T2 - The Bourgeois experience, Victoria to Freud SN - 9780393319033 PY - 1986/// CY - New York PB - W W Norton KW - Middle class KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Love KW - Psychoanalysis and culture N1 - "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 N2 - "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 ER -