【作者简介】 詹姆斯•弗农（James Vernon），加州大学伯克利分校历史系教授，“伯克利英国研究系列”丛书联合主编，研究领域包括：现代英国史、大英帝国史、帝国史与全球化的比较研究，另著有：《政治与人民：1815—1867年的英国政治文化研究》《再读宪法：19世纪英国政治史的新解读》《饥饿：一部现代史》《大英帝国古怪的自由现代性》《英国剑桥史：1750年至今》等。 ··· 【译者简介】 张祝馨，英国利兹大学英语文学系硕士，现为图书编辑，另译有《邻人：波兰小镇耶德瓦布内中犹太群体的灭亡》等。

What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Britain, a place long held to be the crucible of modernity, a new and distinctly modern...(展开全部)

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multi-media enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes t...(展开全部)

乌尔里希•贝克 Ulrich Beck 1944年生于斯武普斯克, 曾在弗莱堡和慕尼黑学习过社会学，哲学，心理学和政治学。目前在慕尼黑大学和伦敦经济学院教授社会学。 伊丽莎白•贝克 Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim爱尔兰根-纽伦堡大学的社会学教授。她主要研究社会变化产生的问题与家庭在社会中角色的变化。

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have ...(展开全部)

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multi-media enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes t...(展开全部)

Franco Moretti is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab. He writes regularly for New Left Review and is a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is the author of, among other books, Far Country, The Bourgeois and Graphs, Maps, Trees. His work has been translated into more than twenty lang...(展开全部)

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have ...(展开全部)

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have ...(展开全部)

乌尔里希•贝克 Ulrich Beck 1944年生于斯武普斯克, 曾在弗莱堡和慕尼黑学习过社会学，哲学，心理学和政治学。目前在慕尼黑大学和伦敦经济学院教授社会学。 伊丽莎白•贝克 Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim爱尔兰根-纽伦堡大学的社会学教授。她主要研究社会变化产生的问题与家庭在社会中角色的变化。