The Parvenu's Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-century Studies) - Hardcover

Foote, Stephanie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611686806 ISBN 13: 9781611686807

Verlag: University of New Hampshire Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

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.

Biografía del autor:

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

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• Verlag: University of New Hampshire Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1611686806
• ISBN 13: 9781611686807
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256