Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750 - Hardcover

Seigel, Jerrold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107018102 ISBN 13: 9781107018105

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values all played key roles. Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features of their common participation in expanding and thickening networks that linked together distant energies and resources across economic, political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England, France and Germany, he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics, money and finance, gender relations, morality, and literary, artistic and musical life.

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Book Description

What does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.

About the Author

Jerrold Seigel is Kenan Professor of History Emeritus, New York University. His previous publications include The Idea of the Self (2005), Bohemian Paris (1986) and Marx's Fate (1978).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107018102
• ISBN 13: 9781107018105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 638