Atlas of the European Novel is a pioneering study of the physical geography of the novel. Modern Epic turns to perhaps the most foundational question of all in novel studies: its relationship to the epic form. The Way of the World, for example, examines the youthful protagonist as a symbol for European modernity itself: that sudden mix of “lost illusions and great expectations” exemplified in the novels of Austen, Goethe, Stendhal, Balzac, and Turgenev. Professor Moretti’s early books, especially Signs Taken for Wonders (Verso, 1983), The Way of the World (Verso, 1987), Modern Epic (Verso, 1996), and Atlas of the European Novel (Verso, 1998), established him as perhaps the most distinguished living critic of the European novel in the “realist” tradition. He is the founder of Stanford’s Center for the Study of the Novel and founder and director of the Stanford Literary Lab, a pathbreaking center devoted to digital research in the humanities. and Laura Louise Bell Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. A scholar with audiences both within and outside of the humanities, Franco Moretti is the Danily C.
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