World’s Best Short Stories: Emergence of the Bourgeois Society

One of the principal features of western society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as reflected in the literature of the period, was the emergence of the bourgeois society. This might also be referred to as the creation of the middle class. From an economic perspective, the emergence of this class resulted from improvements in productivity in the agricultural and industrial sectors which meant that opportunities for professional people (e.g. doctors, lawyers and bankers) in mostly urban settings were becoming more prominent.

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