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Preface: Twenty Years Later -- Introduction: The Bildungsroman As Symbolic Form -- The Comfort Of Civilization -- The Ring Of Life -- The Rhetoric Of Happiness -- Anti-robinson -- Aesthetic Education -- The Art Of Living -- Personality -- Trial, Opportunity, Episode -- Conversation -- 'inevitable Evils' -- The Sociology Of Prejudice -- Symbol And Interpretation -- Escape From Freedom -- Of Necessity, Virtue -- Waterloo Story -- Politics As Destiny? -- 'the Uniform Of My Generation' -- Homo Clausus -- Bovarysm, Disavowal, Bad Faith -- The Age Of Ideals -- 'that's The Way Of The World' -- Reality Principle, Realism, Irony -- The Automaton's Rights -- 'a Parody, Perhaps ... ' -- Socialization Rejected -- 'a Certain Amount Of Impudence' -- Streben -- 'all Ties Cast Off' -- Unhappy Ending -- Irony And Irrationality -- The Fall Of Wisdom -- The Waterloo Paradox -- The World Of Prose -- Parvenir -- In Fashion -- The Balzacian Narrator (i): 'nothing Is Hidden From Me' -- The Balzacian Narrator (ii): 'at A Time Like This It Would Be A Wonderful Spectacle ... ' -- Capitalism And Narration -- Fifty Thousand Young Men. One Hundred Thousand Novels -- On The Genesis Of Tolerance -- 'narration' -- Balzac At His Very Worst -- The World Of Prose -- Dialectics Of Desire -- 'and In Return, What Do You Hope To Take?' -- Forever Young? -- The Conspiracy Of The Innocents -- The Confinement Of Youth -- The White And The Black -- Very Common Persons -- Anthropological Garden -- 'in This Enlightened Age ... ' -- The Devil's Party. Franco Moretti. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 229-252.
