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Hardcover:
9780670785971 | Viking Pr, June 21, 2016, cover price $28.00
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.
Hardcover:
9781611686807, titled "The Parvenuâs Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism" | Univ of New Hampshire, November 4, 2014, cover price $85.00
Paperback:
9781611686814, titled "The Parvenuâs Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism" | Univ of New Hampshire, November 4, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: 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.
Paperback:
9781107685765 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 17, 2014, cover price $44.99
Library:
9781420502657 | Lucent Books, May 14, 2010, cover price $39.40
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