Franco Moretti

Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Contact:

Building 460, Room 417
Phone: 650 723 4590
moretti@stanford.edu

OVERVIEW:

Author of Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998), and Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005). Chief editor of The Novel (Princeton, 2006). Has founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and, with Matt Jockers, the Literary Lab. Writes often for New Left Review, and his work has been translated into over twenty languages.

EDUCATION:

1972: Universita' di Roma Laurea

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Courses

COMPLIT

330

The Bourgeois

Spr

2010-11

Goal is to define the ruling class of modern times. Social history (Weber, Hirschmann, Marx); literary texts (Defoe, Goethe, Gaskell); and Henrik Ibsen who produced an intransigent criticism of the bourgeois ethos.

Publications

Moretti, Franco The novel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Moretti, Franco Graphs, maps, trees : abstract models for a literary history. London {;;New} York: Verso, 2005.
Moretti, Franco, and Alberto Piazza La letteratura vista da lontano. Torino: G. Einaudi, 2005.
Moretti, Franco, Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, and Ernesto Franco Il romanzo. Torino: G. Einaudi, 2001.
Moretti, Franco Il romanzo di formazione. {[Nuovo} ed.]. ed. Torino: Einaudi, 1999.
Moretti, Franco Atlas of the European novel, 1800-1900. London {;;New} York: Verso, 1998.
Moretti, Franco Atlante del romanzo europeo : 1800-1900. Torino: G. Einaudi, 1997.
Moretti, Franco Modern epic : the world-system from Goethe to García Márquez. London {;;New} York: Verso, 1996.
Moretti, Franco Opere mondo : saggio sulla forma epica dal Faust a Cent'anni di solitudine. Torino: Einaudi, 1994.
Moretti, Franco Segni e stili del moderno. Torino: Einaudi, 1987.
Moretti, Franco The way of the world : the Bildungsroman in European culture. London: Verso, 1987.
Moretti, Franco Signs taken for wonders : essays in the sociology of literary forms. London: {NLB} {;Verso} Editions, 1983.
Moretti, Franco Letteratura e ideologie negli anni trenta inglesi. Bari: Adriatica, 1976.