- Verso
The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature
Key Metrics
- Franco Moretti
- Verso
- Paperback
- 9781781683040
- 8.1 X 5.4 X 0.7 inches
- 0.65 pounds
- Literary Criticism > European - General
- English
Book Description
Thus begins Franco Moretti's study of the bourgeois in modern European literature--a major new analysis of the once-dominant culture and its literary decline and fall. Moretti's gallery of individual portraits is entwined with the analysis of specific keywords--useful and earnest, efficiency, influence, comfort, roba--and of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. From the working master of the opening chapter, through the seriousness of nineteenth-century novels, the conservative hegemony of Victorian Britain, the national malformations of the Southern and Eastern periphery, and the radical self-critique of Ibsen's twelve-play cycle, the book charts the vicissitudes of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and for its current irrelevance.
Videos
No Videos
Community reviews
Write a ReviewNo Community reviews