Abstract
AbstractThe paper examines the inter-discursive relations between the naturalistic novel and early sociology in the late nineteenth century and consequently unfolds a yet-to-be-told history of modernity concepts commonly used in literary criticism today. The narrative and aesthetic implications of these concepts have often been discussed. However, their unquestioned inevitability on the level of representation and an understanding of modern culture can be observed and investigated against this historical background in particular. This allows for two tentative assumptions: First, the logical inconsistencies of the historical narrative inspected here have a continuing impact on ›classical‹ theories of modernity in general and affect their fundamental conceptual formation. Second, this kind of terminology of modernity was never modern in the first place.
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