The Parvenu s Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism - Couverture souple

Foote, Stephanie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611686814 ISBN 13 : 9781611686814

Editeur : University of New Hampshire Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this very readable volume, Stephanie Foote gathers a range of print sources--from novels by Edith Wharton and Henry James to gossip columns, fashion magazines, popular novels, and etiquette manuals--to ask how the realist period understood the individual experience of class. Examining the female arriviste (the parvenu of the title) in turn-of-the-century New York (where a supposedly stable elite was threatened by the nouveaux riches), Foote shows how class became more than just an economic position: it was a fundamental part of individual identity, exemplified by a shifting set of social behaviors that form the core of many nineteenth-century novels. She persuasively presents the female parvenu as a key figure in turn-of-the-century culture that embodies the volatility of social standing and the continuing project of structuring and justifying it.

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À propos de l?auteur

STEPHANIE FOOTE is associate professor of English and gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of New Hampshire Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611686814
• ISBN 13: 9781611686814
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible