In his encyclopedic The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (five volumes between 19), Gay explored in wonderfully readable prose a wide range of aspects of the European – especially the British, French and German – and the North American middle classes in their heyday. The first volume, subtitled The Rise of Modern Pagansim, of Peter Gay’s massive study, was widely acclaimed far beyond the academic world
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