Thomas Mann’s essay on “Goethe as a Representative” of this term’s “Age” is quoted in a book about this term “between history and literature” by Franco Moretti. In “Conversations on The Natural Son,” a moralizing style of “drame” (“drahm”) sometimes named for this word was pioneered by Denis Diderot (“did-uh-ROH”). Gotthold Lessing’s Emilia Galotti and Miss Sara Sampson exemplify a type of 18th-century “tragedy” named for this term. This original-language adjective appears in the title of a 1670 comedy-ballet whose protagonist discovers that he has spent his whole life speaking prose, and tries to learn philosophy and fencing. The socially-climbing Monsieur Jourdain (“zhoor-DAN”) is this kind of “gentleman” according to the title of a Molière play. For 10 points, what term names a group that Marxist literary theorists contrast with the proletariat? ■END■
ANSWER: bourgeois (“boor-ZHWAH”) [accept bourgeoisie or bürgerliches; accept Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme or The Bourgeois Gentleman or bourgeois tragedy or bürgerliches Trauerspiel or bourgeois drama or drame bourgeois or The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature or “Goethe as a Representative of the Bourgeois Age” or “Goethe als Repräsentant des bürgerlichen Zeitalters”; prompt on middle class]
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