Full title: The bourgeois : between history and literature / Franco Moretti.

Author/creator: Moretti, Franco, 1950-.

Call Numbers: G 2014/1495

Record Identifier: 74VKM4JOmZwX

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: 203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm., , , , Introduction: Concepts and contradictions. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class' ; Dissonances ; Bourgeoisie, middle class ; Between history and literature ; Abstract hero ; Prose and keywords: preliminary remarks ; 'The bourgeois is lost...'. -- A working master. Adventure, enterprise, Fortuna ; 'This will testify for me that I was not idle' ; Keywords I: 'Useful' ; Keywords II: 'Efficiency' ; Keywords III: 'Comfort' ; Prose I: 'The rhythm of continuity' ; Prose II: 'We have discovered the productivity of the spirit...'. -- Serious century. Keywords IV: 'Serious' ; Fillers ; Rationalization ; Prose III: Reality principle ; Description, conservatism, Realpolitik ; Prose IV: 'A transposition of the objective into the subjective'. -- Fog. Naked, shameless, and direct ; 'Behind the veil' ; The gothic, un déjà-là ; The gentleman ; Keywords V: 'Influence' ; Prose V: Victorian adjectives ; Keywords VI: 'Earnest' ; 'Who loves not knowledge?' ; Prose VI: Fog. -- 'National malformations': Metamorphoses in the semi-periphery. Balzac, Machado, and money ; Keywords VII: 'Roba' ; Persistence of the Old Regime I: The doll ; Persistence of the Old Regime II: Torquemada ; 'There's arithmetic for you!'. -- Ibsen and the spirit of capitalism. The grey area ; 'Signs against signs' ; Bourgeois prose, capitalist poetry.

Publishers: Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2013.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 809/.93355

MMS ID: 991021343619702626