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Index
Cover
Title
Dedication
Contents
Note on Sources
Introduction: Concepts and Contradictions
1. ‘I am a member of the bourgeois class’
2. Dissonances
3. Bourgeoisie, middle class
4. Between history and literature
5. Abstract hero
6. Prose and keywords: preliminary remarks
7. ‘The bourgeois is lost . . .’
I. A Working Master
1. Adventure, enterprise, Fortuna
2. ‘This will testify for me that I was not idle’
3. Keywords I: ‘Useful’
4. Keywords II: ‘Efficiency’
5. Keywords III: ‘Comfort’
6. Prose I: ‘The rhythm of continuity’
7. Prose II: ‘We have discovered the productivity of the spirit . . .’
II. Serious Century
1. Keywords IV: ‘Serious’
2. Fillers
3. Rationalization
4. Prose III: Reality principle
5. Description, conservatism, Realpolitik
6. Prose IV: ‘A transposition of the objective into the subjective’
III. Fog
1. Naked, shameless, and direct
2. ‘Behind the veil’
3. The Gothic, un déjà-là
4. The gentleman
5. Keywords V: ‘Influence’
6. Prose V: Victorian adjectives
7. Keywords VI: ‘Earnest’
8. ‘Who loves not Knowledge?’
9. Prose VI: Fog
IV. ‘National Malformations’: Metamorphoses in the Semi-Periphery
1. Balzac, Machado, and money
2. Keywords VII: ‘Roba’
3. Persistence of the Old Regime I: The Doll
4. Persistence of the Old Regime II: Torquemada
5. ‘There’s arithmetic for you!’
V. Ibsen and the Spirit of Capitalism
1. The grey area
2. ‘Signs against signs’
3. Bourgeois prose, capitalist poetry
Illustration Credits
Index
Copyright
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