{"product_id":"the-way-of-the-world-franco-moretti-9781859842980","title":"The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture","description":"Wilhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julien Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke ... the golden age of the European novel discovers a new collective protagonist: youth. It is problematic and restless youth--\"strange\" characters, as their own creators often say--arising from the downfall of traditional societies. But even more than that, youth is the symbolic figure for European modernity: that sudden mix of great expectations and lost illusions that the bourgeois world learns to \"read\", and to accept, as if it were a novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, with its unique combination of narrative theory and social history, interprets the \u003ci\u003eBildungsroman\u003c\/i\u003e as the great cultural mediator of nineteenth-century Europe: a form which explores the many strange compromises between revolution and restoration, economic take-off and aesthetic pleasure, individual autonomy and social normality. This new edition includes an additional final chapter on the collapse of the \u003ci\u003eBildungsroman\u003c\/i\u003e in the years around the First World War (a crisis which opened the way for modernist experiments), and a new preface in which the author looks back at \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the World\u003c\/i\u003e in the light of his more recent work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Franco Moretti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1859842984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781859842980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.06w x 0.86d","brand":"Franco Moretti","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991162913023,"sku":"9781859842980","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da479d2a-5d22-46f4-b233-efef0777d236.jpg?v=1683308794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-way-of-the-world-franco-moretti-9781859842980","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}