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Bourgeois

Between History and Literature

Bourgeois( )
Author: Moretti, Franco
ISBN:978-1-306-91830-5
Publication Date:Jan 2013
Publisher:Verso
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $84.95
Book 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...
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