Bourgeois Between History and Literature

Name: Bourgeois Between History and Literature
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ISBN: 9781781683040

ISBN-10: 1781683042

ISBN-13: 9781781683040

Edition: 2014

Authors: Franco Moretti

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"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,' wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Bourgeois 'opinions and ideals'--what are they?"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…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/5/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.48" wide x 8.23" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English