The Bourgeois : between history and literature /: between history and literature. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Franco Moretti.
• Authors: Moretti, Franco, 1950-
• Contents: Cover; Title; Dedication; Contents; Note on Sources; Introduction: Concepts and Contradictions; 1. â#x80;#x98;I am a member of the bourgeois classâ#x80;#x99;; 2. Dissonances; 3. Bourgeoisie, middle class; 4. Between history and literature; 5. Abstract hero; 6. Prose and keywords: preliminary remarks; 7. â#x80;#x98;The bourgeois is lost . . .â#x80;#x99;; I. A Working Master; 1. Adventure, enterprise, Fortuna; 2. â#x80;#x98;This will testify for me that I was not idleâ#x80;#x99;; 3. Keywords I: â#x80;#x98;Usefulâ#x80;#x99;; 4. Keywords II: â#x80;#x98;Efficiencyâ#x80;#x99;; 5. Keywords III: â#x80;#x98;Comfortâ#x80;#x99;; 6. Prose I: â#x80;#x98;The rhythm of continuityâ#x80;#x99; 7. Prose II: â#x80;#x98;We have discovered the productivity of the spirit . . .â#x80;#x99;II. Serious Century; 1. Keywords IV: â#x80;#x98;Seriousâ#x80;#x99;; 2. Fillers; 3. Rationalization; 4. Prose III: Reality principle; 5. Description, conservatism, Realpolitik; 6. Prose IV: â#x80;#x98;A transposition of the objective into the subjectiveâ#x80;#x99;; III. Fog; 1. Naked, shameless, and direct; 2. â#x80;#x98;Behind the veilâ#x80;#x99;; 3. The Gothic, un déjà -là ; 4. The gentleman; 5. Keywords V: â#x80;#x98;Influenceâ#x80;#x99;; 6. Prose V: Victorian adjectives; 7. Keywords VI: â#x80;#x98;Earnestâ#x80;#x99;; 8. â#x80;#x98;Who loves not Knowledge?â#x80;#x99;; 9. Prose VI: Fog IV. â#x80;#x98;National Malformationsâ#x80;#x99;: Metamorphoses in the Semi-Periphery1. Balzac, Machado, and money; 2. Keywords VII: â#x80;#x98;Robaâ#x80;#x99;; 3. Persistence of the Old Regime I: The Doll; 4. Persistence of the Old Regime II: Torquemada; 5. â#x80;#x98;Thereâ#x80;#x99;s arithmetic for you!â#x80;#x99;; V. Ibsen and the Spirit of Capitalism; 1. The grey area; 2. â#x80;#x98;Signs against signsâ#x80;#x99;; 3. Bourgeois prose, capitalist poetry; Illustration Credits; Index
• Publisher Details: London New York : Verso
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (203 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 809/.93355; Middle class in literature; Social values in literature; Middle class in literature; Social values in literature; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1781684855; 9781781684856
• Related ISBNs: 1781683042
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.