{"product_id":"the-bourgeois-between-history-and-literature-9781781683040","title":"The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature","description":"\"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?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThus 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Franco Moretti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781683040","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45229760184457,"sku":"9781781683040","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_422bedb5-e38c-4e4a-b5a3-ee57fbd314e9.jpg?v=1770113106","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-bourgeois-between-history-and-literature-9781781683040","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}