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Franco Moretti’s The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture
"Franco Moretti’s The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture remains the definitive sociological analysis of the "novel of formation." It argues that the Bildungsroman served as the essential "symbolic form" of Western modernity, reconciling the contradictory demands of individual freedom and social integration during the long nineteenth century (1789–1914). In the history of literary criticism, few works have reshaped our understanding of a genre as profoundly as Moretti’s study. First published in Italian in 1987 and later translated into English, the book examines how the European novel transitioned from the radical upheava..."
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