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Product Description: “The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished...read more

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9781781680858 | 1 edition (Verso Books, June 4, 2013), cover price $26.95
9780299104108, titled "Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of Law" | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $21.95 | also contains Heracles'' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of Law

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9781781683040 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, August 5, 2014), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: “The bourgeois .

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Hardcover:

9781781681121 | Verso Books, June 4, 2013, cover price $95.00

Paperback:

9781781680841 | Verso Books, June 4, 2013, cover price $29.95

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Professor Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. He insists that such a move could bring new luster to a tired field, one that in some respects is among “the most backwards disciplines in the academy.” Literary study, he argues, has been random and unsystematic. For any given period scholars focus on a select group of a mere few hundred texts: the canon. As a result, they have allowed a narrow distorting slice of history to pass for the total picture.Moretti offers bar charts, maps, and time lines instead, developing the idea of “distant reading,” set forth in his path-breaking essay “Conjectures on World Literature,” into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, where the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genres—the epistolary, the gothic, and the historical novel—as well as the literary output of countries such as Japan, Italy, Spain, and Nigeria, he shows how literary history looks significantly different from what is commonly supposed and how the concept of aesthetic form can be radically redefined.

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9781844670260 | Verso Books, July 21, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Professor Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead.

Paperback:

9781844671854 | Verso Books, September 30, 2007, cover price $19.99

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By Franco Moretti (editor)

Hardcover:

9780691049472 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 22, 2006, cover price $137.50

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9780691127187, titled "The Novel: History, Geography and Culture" | Princeton Univ Pr, August 13, 2007, cover price $52.00

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Product Description: Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world...read more
By Franco Moretti (editor)

Hardcover:

9780691049489 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 22, 2006, cover price $137.50

Paperback:

9780691134734 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 13, 2007, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form.

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Product Description: Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land—all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them...read more

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9781844670567 | Verso Books, January 31, 2006, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land—all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form.

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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.The Way of the World, with its unique combination of narrative theory and social history, interprets the Bildungsroman 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 Bildungsroman 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 The Way of the World in the light of his more recent work. (view table of contents)

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9780860911593 | Verso Books, July 1, 1987, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Wilhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julien Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke .

Paperback:

9781859842980 | New edition (Verso Books, September 1, 2000), cover price $29.95
9780860918912, titled "Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture" | Reprint edition (Verso Books, January 1, 1988), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Wilhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julien Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke .

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A groundbreaking study in literary geography. An Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 explores the fascinating connections between literature and space. In this pioneering study, Franco Moretti presents a fresh and exciting perspective en the European novel. In a series of one hundred maps, Moretti illuminates the geographical assumptions of nineteenth-century novels and the geographical reach of particular authors and genres across the continent. A good map, he discovers, can be worth a thousand words in posing new questions and allowing us to see connections that have so tar escaped us. Reading his Atlas, we become aware of the secret structure of Dickens’s and Conan Doyle’s London, and see how the fictional settings of Austen’s Britain, or picaresque Spain, or the France of the Comedie humaine imagine national identity in different ways. In a final chapter on “narrative markets,” Moretti tells us which books were most popular in the provincial libraries of Victorian Britain, and charts the European diffusion of Don Quixote, Buddenbrooks, and the great nineteenth-century bestsellers. In Franco Moretti’s Atlas, maps are net ornaments, but analytical tools which, in making connections explicit and visible, allow us to ‘see’ literature in a completely new way. This path-breaking study suggests that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history.

Hardcover:

9781859848838 | Verso Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A groundbreaking study in literary geography.

Paperback:

9781859842249 | Verso Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $26.95
9780061044274, titled "Who Is Jesus?: Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus" | Harpercollins, December 1, 1996, cover price $5.99 | also contains Who Is Jesus?: Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus | About this edition: Explores actual historical records to present a more factual account of Jesus's personality and teachings, addressing such topics as the miracles, his baptism, and his resurrection.

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Product Description: Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land—all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781859841716 | Verso Books, January 1, 1997, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land—all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form.
9780860919063 | Revised edition (Verso Books, May 1, 1988), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land—all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form.

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Hardcover:

9781859849347 | Verso Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $65.00

Paperback:

9781859840696, titled "Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez" | Verso Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $29.95

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