The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature - Couverture rigide

Moretti, Franco

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 178168085X ISBN 13 : 9781781680858

Editeur : Verso Books, 2013

Synopsis

The Bourgeois Who - and what - are the Bourgeois? Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

‘A passionate and astute scholar’ —Jonathan Franzen

‘Cleverly strips away the counting-house walls, watch chains and waistcoats to reveal a phase of middle-class history that was at least as anxious and self-scrutinising as its snobbish detractors could wish’ —Times Higher Education

‘Shows how the novel as form served as the capacious and adaptable home within which the bourgeois could both assert and camouflage itself’ —LA Review of Books

‘It’s a rare literary critic who attracts so much public attention, and there’s a good reason: few are as hellbent on rethinking the way we talk about literature’ —Times Literary Supplement

‘An illuminating, data-rich analysis of a fraught and nuanced null set’ —New Inquiry

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"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?

Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery of individual portraits is entwined around the analysis of specific keywords – such as ‘useful’ and ‘earnest’, ‘efficiency’, ‘influence’, ‘comfort’, ‘roba’ – and of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. The book charts the rise and fall of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical
weakness, and searches for the seeds of its failures.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 178168085X
• ISBN 13: 9781781680858
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 228