5/29/2023 0 Comments Freud by Peter GayHe has come up with some real plums, too, notably what he calls the “exhaustive record” which Mabel Loomis Todd, a middle-class girl who grew up in Washington, D.C. Peering behind the formal 19th-century attitudes to sex, he has not only read the relevant secondary authorities, and ranged very widely in the published diaries and memoirs in English, French, and German, he has also tapped the rich sources of unpublished letters and diaries deposited in American libraries. Peter Gay is an ambitious and unusually wide-ranging historian of culture, and no one can fail to admire the industry with which he seeks knowledge and his zest in communicating it. We are promised that this is the first installment of “a project of enormous scope,” a “multivolume study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820’s to the outbreak of World War I.” Actually, it is an extensive but not particularly systematic survey of sexuality in the 19th century.
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