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.

Verso-Way Of World

Literature & Fiction

Franco Moretti

British & Irish

Verso

The Intellectual Situation is occupied. James Franco prepares, Sotheby's sells out. Are computers stupid? Christopher Glazek: Raze the prisons. Benjamin Kunkel: Buzz.

n+1 Issue 13: Machine Politics

Benjamin Kunkel

Elizabeth Gumport

Sarah Allison

Ryan Heuser

Matthew Jockers

Michael Witmore

JAMES FRANCO

Christopher Glazek

Alice Gregory

Astra Taylor

David Auerbach

Deenah Volmer

Kirill Medvedev

n+1 Foundation

For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the loudness of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, and the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak, descriptions emerge. The Stanford Literary Lab lets the computers provide new insights for questions from the deep tradition of two centuries of literary inquiry. Rather than, like the rest of us, letting the computers lead. The results are adventurous, witty, challenging, profound. The old questions can finally get new answers as the prelude to new big questions. Canon/Archive is the fulfillment and further development of distant reading, adding a rare, full-length monument to the piecemeal progress of the digital humanities. No student, teacher, or inquisitive reader of literature will want to be without this book just as no one interested in the new data-attentive methods in history, criticism, and the social sciences can afford to evade its summons.

Canon/Archive: Studies in Quantitative Formalism

Mark Algee-Hewitt

Marissa Gemma

Holst Katsma

Long Le-Khac

Dominique Pestre

Erik Steiner

Amir Tevel

Hannah Walser

Irena Yamboliev

Literary

n+1 Books

La Letteratura Vista Da Lontano

Einaudi (IT)

Far Country

Essays & Correspondence

Verso Books

Lectura Distante (Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

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