{"product_id":"the-way-of-the-world-isbn-9781859842980","title":"The Way of the World","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.“A short, brilliant, provocative and often entertainingly upbeat book.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A pointed example of the nature of youth, as represented in the novels of Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Goethe and Stendhal ... [Moretti] is undoubtedly a brilliant and searching critic.”—\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFranco Moretti\u003c\/b\u003e teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSigns Taken for Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eModern Epic\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Verso.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305180090597,"sku":"NP9781859842980","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781859842980.jpg?v=1767742155","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-way-of-the-world-isbn-9781859842980","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}