{"product_id":"way-of-the-world-6","title":"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\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.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54263153852760,"sku":"9781859842980","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781859842980.jpg?v=1765672218","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/way-of-the-world-6","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}