In this book, the outstanding Italian literary critic Franco Moretti examines in detail the figure of the bourgeois in the European literature of the New Age. The Gallery of individual portraits proposed by the Moretti is intertwined with the analysis of keywords – “useful” and “serious”, “efficiency”, “influence”, “comfort”, “comfort”, “roba [good, property] and formal mutations of prose. Starting with the “working master” in the first chapter through the seriousness of the novels of the 19th century, the conservative hegemony of Victorian Britain, the “national deformations” of the southern and eastern periphery and the radical self -criticism of Ibsenov’s plays describes the vicissitudes of the bourgeois culture, considering the causes of its historical weakness and gradual departure into the past.
The book is of interest to philologists, historians, sociologists, philosophers.
Author
Moretti Franco
Editor
Popova Elena
Translator
Kushnareva Inna
Publisher
Publishing House of the Gaidar Institute, 2014
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