Contemporary Literary Criticism | Gay, Peter - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Brock, Michael. “Forbidden Fruits.” History Today 37 (January 1987): 55–56.

Brock argues that Gay's ambitious project tends to meander and lacks a clearly structured, overarching argument in this review of The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume II: The Tender Passion.

Collins, Anne. “The Sex Lives of Proper Victorians.” Macleans 97, no. 10 (5 March 1984): 54–55.

Collins offers a positive assessment of The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume I: Education of the Senses.

Heinegg, Peter. “Downhill since Victoria.” America 186, no. 15 (6 May 2002): 27.

Heinegg offers a positive assessment of Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815–1914, noting that Gay's choice of physician and writer Arthur Schnitzler as the focus of his work is “more than a little quixotic.”

Howard, Helen....

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