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The Burgeois: between history and literature

By Franco , Moretti

Book information

Publisher
Verso Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9781781680858, 9781781683057, 178168085X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1313940 bytes)
Pages
203\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Borghesia nella letteratura

Description

"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.From the Hardcover edition.

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