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The Parvenu's Plot

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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781611686814
  • Publisher: University Press of New England
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of New England
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 417 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1611686814
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Series Title: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies (Paperback)
  • Sub Title: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism
  • Width: 156 mm


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