Author: (Italy) Franco Moretti (Author); Zhu Kang (Translator)
Publication Date: December 2024
Publisher: CITIC Press Group
ISBN: 9787521769173
The bourgeoisie is an important social class that emerged with the rise of modern society, embodying a kind of culture, style, and taste. It has not only profoundly influenced the historical process of Europe and America but also left a unique rhythm and cadence in European and American literature. Bourgeois: Between History and Literature is a masterpiece studying this issue. Following a chronological thread, the author analyzes the bourgeoisie's self-understanding in the 18th century, the serious novels of the 19th century, the conservative hegemony in Victorian Britain, the bourgeoisie in semi-peripheral European regions, and the self-criticism of bourgeois life in Ibsen's era. It depicts the rise and fall of bourgeois culture and, with a critical perspective supplemented by a keen understanding of history, dissects the structural contradictions behind the decline of the bourgeoisie.
