The bourgeois : between history and literature /
"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 t...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The bourgeois : |b between history and literature / |c Franco Moretti. |
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| 520 | |a "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 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. -- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Introduction: Concepts and contradictions. |t 'I am a member of the bourgeois class' -- |t Dissonances -- |t Bourgeoisie, middle class -- |t Between history and literature -- |t Abstract hero -- |t Prose and keywords : preliminary remarks -- |t 'The bourgeois is lost ...' -- |g A working master. |t Adventure, enterprise, Fortuna -- |t 'This will testify for me that I was not idle' -- |t Keywords I : 'Useful' -- |t Keywords II : 'Efficiency' -- |t Keywords III : 'Comfort' -- |t Prose I : 'The rhythm of continuity' -- |t Prose II : 'We have discovered the productivity of the spirit ...' -- |g Serious century. |t Keywords IV : 'Serious' -- |t Fillers -- |t Rationalization -- |t Prose III : Reality principle -- |t Description, conservatism, Realpolitik -- |t Prose IV : 'A transposition of the objective into the subjective' -- |g Fog. |t Naked, shameless, and direct ; 'Behind the veil' -- |t The gothic, un déjà-là -- |t The gentleman -- |t Keywords V : 'Influence' -- |t Prose V : Victorian adjectives -- |t Keywords VI : 'Earnest' -- |t 'Who loves not knowledge?' -- |t Prose VI : Fog -- |g 'National malformations': Metamorphoses in the semi-periphery. |t Balzac, Machado, and money -- |t Keywords VII : 'Roba' -- |t Persistence of the Old Regime I : The doll -- |t Persistence of the Old Regime II : Torquemada -- |t 'There's arithmetic for you!' -- |g Ibsen and the spirit of capitalism. |t The grey area -- |t 'Signs against signs' -- |t Bourgeois prose, capitalist poetry. |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Social values in literature. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008644. | |
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